క్షారము
Telugu edit
Alternative forms edit
- క్షారం (kṣāraṁ)
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit क्षार (kṣāra) + -ము (-mu).
Noun edit
క్షారము • (kṣāramu) ? (plural క్షారములు)
- salt, saltness.
- (chemistry) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue - alkali.
Antonyms edit
- ఆమ్లము (āmlamu, “acid”)
References edit
- "క్షారము" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 339