The process of making something alkaline or converting a substance into an alkali.
From alkali (Arabic al-qali) + '-isation' (British) or '-ization' (American). The '-isation' suffix comes from Latin via French, indicating a process or result of action.
The same chemical process has three different names depending on where you live: alkalisation (British), alkalinization (American), or alkalization (American)—this linguistic fragmentation actually caused real confusion in early international chemistry conferences.
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