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-ate
unknown · 78% connection
In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulph…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Acid
noun · 78% connection
One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Alkali
noun · 78% connection
One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcoh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Base
noun · 78% connection
The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Caoutchouc
noun · 78% connection
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Corrective
noun · 78% connection
That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Deliquiate
verb · 78% connection
To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Develop
verb · 78% connection
To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Dibasic
adjective · 78% connection
Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Dilute
verb · 78% connection
To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Dissolvent
adjective · 78% connection
Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Drain
verb · 78% connection
To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Dry
superl. · 78% connection
Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Exsiccator
noun · 78% connection
An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Fluorescein
noun · 78% connection
A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Glucoside
noun · 78% connection
One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and rega…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
Humidity
noun · 78% connection
Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dissolve, gradually, liquid, attracting, absorbing.
