Illustration: In a Japanese school laboratory, a student wearing goggles carefully adds a basic solution drop by drop into an acidic solution containing red-cabbage indicator. The receiving liquid has reached purple, matching a nearby water sample containing the same indicator.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

中ちゅう和わ

chuuwa

to neutralize an acid or base

Example sentences

  1. アルカリは酸さんを中和ちゅうわする。

    Alkalis neutralize acids.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 酸性土さんせいどを灰はいで中和ちゅうわする。

    Acid soil is neutralised by ash.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 制酸薬せいさんやくは胃酸いさんを中和ちゅうわする

    gastric antacid neutralizes stomach acid

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Kanji in 中和

  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる
  • 和harmony; Japanese styleOnワ・オ・カKunやわらぐ・やわらげる・なごむ

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