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- Hydrate - n. - A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.
- Hydrate - n. - A substance which does not contain water as such, but has its constituents (hydrogen, oxygen, hydroxyl) so arranged that water may be eliminated; hence, a derivative of, or compound with, hydroxyl; hydroxide; as, ethyl hydrate, or common alcohol; calcium hydrate, or slaked lime.
- Hydrate - v. t. - To form into a hydrate; to combine with water.
- Hydrated - imp. & p. p. - of Hydrate
- Hydrated - a. - Formed into a hydrate; combined with water.
- salt - - Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.
- Sulphydrate - n. - A compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt of sulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in which one half of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as potassium sulphydrate, KSH), or as a hydrate in which the oxygen has been wholly or partially replaced by sulphur.
- Gibbsite - n. - A hydrate of alumina.
- Diaspore - n. - A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
- Magnesia - n. - A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.
- Terpin - n. - A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine.
- Polyacid - a. - Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monobasic acid; having more than one hydrogen atom capable of being replaced by acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; as, calcium hydrate and glycerin are polyacid bases.
- Lime - v. t. - To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.
- Beauxite - n. - A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.
- Aluminate - n. - A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.