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Home Dictionary Name: solutionBanana solution
A solution used as a vehicle in applying bronze pigments In addition to acetote benzine and a little pyroxylin it contains amyl acetate which gives it the odor of bananas...
Dobells solution
An aqueous solution of carbolic acid borax sodium bicarbonate and glycerin used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat...
Fowlers solution
An aqueous solution of arsenite of potassium of such strength that one hundred parts represent one part of arsenious acid or white arsenic named from Fowler an English physician who first brought it into use...
Labarraques solution
An aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite extensively used as a disinfectant...
Monsels solution
An aqueous solution of Monsels salt having valuable styptic properties...
Solute
Loose free liberal as a solute interpretation...
deionizer
an apparatus used to remove ions from a solution a common variant contains a mixture of cation exchange resin in the acid form and anion exchange resin in the hydroxyl form inside a replaceable cartridge ions in aqueous solution are exchanged for the elements of water by passing the solution through the mixed resin...
hypertonic
Having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution of an aqueous solution Increasing the concentration of dissolved solids increases the osmotic pressure and thus the tonicity of a solution Opposite of hypotonic and contrasting with isotonic...
Ion
an atom or goup of atoms radical carrying an electrical charge It is contrasted with neutral atoms or molecules and free radicals Certain compounds such as sodium chloride are composed of complementary ions in the solid crystalline as well as in solution Others notably acids such as hydrogen chloride may occur as neutral molecules in the pure liquid or gas forms and ionize almost completely in dilute aqueous solutions In solutions as in water ions are frequently bound non covalently with the molecules of solvent and in that case are said to be solvated According to the electrolytic dissociation theory the molecules of electrolytes are divided into ions by water and other solvents An ion consists of one or more atoms and carries one unit charges of electricity 34 x 10 10 electrostatic units or a multiple of this Those which are positively electrified hydrogen and the metals are called cations negative ions hydroxyl and acidic atoms or groups are called anions...
osmotic pressure
The pressure which a solution of a substance in a liquid exerts on a semipermeable membrane through which the solvent can diffuse but the dissolved substance the solute cannot diffuse when separated across the membrane from the pure solvent In general the osmotic pressure will depend almost proportionally up to certain concentrations upon the molal concentration of the solute...
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