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alkaline earths

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alkaline earths (ăl`kəlīn, –lĭn), oxides of the alkaline-earth metals alkaline-earth metals, metals constituting Group 2 of the periodic table. Generally, they are softer than most other metals, react readily with water (especially when heated), and are powerful reducing agents, but they are exceeded in each of these properties by the
..... Click the link for more information. , especially of calcium, strontium, and barium. They are not readily soluble in water and form solutions less basic than those of alkalies.
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Layer differences of alkaline earths are explained by the specifics of Holocene sediments.
Gleysols on sandy deposits of the Litorina Sea underlain by Histosol ... by Reintam, Loit; Moora, Tanel; Raukas, Anto / Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
Some alkaline earths seem to be accumulated in the humous horizon above the buried histic epipedon of Gleysol.
Podzolization in aeolian sands, underlain by gleysol formation, ... by Reintam, Loit; Raukas, Anto; Kleesment, Anne; Moora, Tanel; Kahrik, Raja / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
Curiously, lens coating materials are metals and alkaline earths.
Historically speaking by Patti, Tony / PSA Journal
 
 
 
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