A chemical compound formed by the reaction of an alkaline substance with an amide.
From alkali plus amide. This is a modern chemical term formed in English during the development of organic chemistry in the 19th-20th centuries.
Alkalamide is a perfect example of how chemistry builds vocabulary by mashing together Latin-Arabic roots (alkali) with modern chemical terms (amide)—it's chemical poetry!
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