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Definition of Aqueous
1. Adjective. Similar to or containing or dissolved in water. "Aqueous solutions"
2. Adjective. Produced by the action of water.
Definition of Aqueous
1. a. Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery.
Definition of Aqueous
1. Adjective. (chemistry) Consisting mostly of water. ¹
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Definition of Aqueous
1. pertaining to water [adj]
Medical Definition of Aqueous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aqueous
Literary usage of Aqueous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1856)
"In a saturated aqueous solution of iodide of potassium. In a saturated aqueous
solution of ... In a strong aqueous solution of sulpho- cyanide of potassium. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"aqueous solution orange, giving violet precipitate with mineral acids. ...
Purple-red aqueous solution gives bluish- black precipitate with hydrochloric ..."
3. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"In the special lymph apparatus the ciliary processes, the iris, the aqueous humour
and the vitreous humour are concerned. The aqueous humour. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"And first as to the hypothesis of an atmosphere of aqueous vapour pressing only
upon itself. If there be such an atmosphere, the general laws of pressure of ..."
5. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1894)
"This corresponded to an absorption of 7 2—that is to say, the aqueous vapour
contained in the air absorbs 72 times the quantity of heat absorbed by the air ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The dry air, which consists of oxygen and nitrogen, is always a gas, and its
quantity remains constant ; bat the aqueous vapour does not .continue ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Therefore, we have studied the partition of Gd3+ between an aqueous phase and
several silicate minerals and between an aqueous phase and silicate melts, ..."
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