Capable of being made alkaline or treated with alkali.
From alkalize + -able suffix (from Latin -abilis, meaning 'capable of'). The suffix -able is one of the most common ways to create adjectives in English meaning 'able to be' or 'capable of being.'
The -able suffix is like a magic key—it transforms verbs into possibility statements. 'Alkalizable' doesn't say something IS alkaline, just that it CAN BECOME alkaline, which is subtly different and scientifically important!
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