Definitions for hydrate

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hydrate hy·drate

Spelling: [hahy-dreyt]

IPA: /ˈhaɪ dreɪt/

Hydrate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in hydrate (adehrty).

Definitions for hydrate

noun

1. any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to combine chemically with water.

Origin of hydrate

First recorded in 1795-1805; hydr-¹ + -ate²

Examples for hydrate

By passing chlorine through strong milk of hydrate or of carbonate of barium, in the same way as in making chlorate of potassium.

Launching this spring, it promises “repair, hydrate and renew.”

The oxide and hydrate change to carbonate, and therefore are good.

Rub together equal parts of hydrate of potash and quick-lime, and keep the powder in a well-stoppered bottle.

An acid first obtained, by Plisson, from asparagin, by boiling it along with hydrate of lead or of magnesia.

Serpentine is a compound of silicate and hydrate of magnesium.

Dissolve this precipitate in alcohol or in dilute ammonia, and treat the solution with hydrate of aluminum.

This hydrate is slightly soluble in water and reddens litmus.

The hydrate is soluble in the acids and in alkaline lyes; with the first it forms salts which have a green or purple colour.

“Milk of lime” consists of a cream of the hydrate and water.