base-forming

It cannot be determined whether it had ever been used medially as a base-forming consonant.

The fraction of the base-forming cations that occupy positions on the soil colloids is called the base saturation percentage.

Adunaic did not possess, as independent Base-forming ele- ments, nasals of the c- or K-series.

There are acid-forming cations (hydrogen and aluminium) and there are base-forming cations.