The enterprise was abandoned. Farther to the left, a portion of the 6th Corps carried the first line of the Confederate entrenchments, and captured 900 prisoners and several guns. Then the first day's real battle at Spotsylvania Courthouse was ended.
Base (mathematics) In mathematics, a base or radix is the number of different digits or combination of digits and letters that a system of counting uses to represent numbers. For example, the most common base used today is the decimal system. Because dec means 10, it uses the 10 digits from 0 to 9.
A base is a substance that produces hydroxide ions, OH -1, when it dissolves in water. NH. Bronsted and Lowry Acids and Bases. An acid is the species (molecule or ion) that donates a proton to another species in a proton-tranfser reaction.ASE. -a compound that increases the concentration of hydroxide ions (OH -1) when dissolved in water. -any species that can accept a proton (H +1). -base formulas are written with the hydroxide ion at the end of the formula.