Third-person singular present tense of 'alkalify'; makes something alkaline or converts it into an alkali.
From alkali (Arabic origin) + '-fies' (makes). This is the conjugated form showing the action happening in present tense with he/she/it or a singular noun subject.
Even though 'alkalifies' is grammatically correct, you'll almost never see it in modern chemistry papers because the field prefers 'alkalizes' or just uses 'alkaline' as an adjective instead—language efficiency wins over morphological regularity.
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