"alkalescence" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "glosses": [
        "A tendency to become alkaline."
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          "alkaline"
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          "ref": "1838, Alexander Ure, A Practical Compendium of the Materia Medica:",
          "text": "Rectified wood vinegar has been successfully employed by Klaatsch, Teufel, and Schubarth, in the gelatinous softening of the stomach with a disposition to alkalescence",
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        "The state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominate."
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      "word": "alkalescency"
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  "word": "alkalescence"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "A tendency to become alkaline."
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          "alkaline",
          "alkaline"
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        "The state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominate."
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  "word": "alkalescence"
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