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Definition of Electrolytes

1. electrolyte [n] - See also: electrolyte

Medical Definition of Electrolytes

1. Substances that dissociate into two or more ions, to some extent, in water. Solutions of electrolytes thus conduct an electric current and can be decomposed by it (electrolysis). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Electrolytes

Literary usage of Electrolytes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"EQUILIBRIUM IN SOLUTIONS OF electrolytes Solubility and Dissociation of ... When different electrolytes are brought in contact with a solvent like water, ..."

2. A Text-book of physiology for medical students and physicians by William Henry Howell (1913)
"Before stating these methods it becomes necessary to define two terms— namely, electrolytes and gram-molecular solutions—that are much used in this ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"The remarkable nature of this result, however, may well be emphasized, since for all ordinary solutions, including even those of "weak" electrolytes, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"The law of mass action, which gives us Ostwald's law for weak electrolytes, has not hitherto been harmonized with the empirical data for strong electrolytes ..."

5. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1904)
"As long as water was considered an electrolyte, and was, indeed, taken as the type of electrolytes, there was a strong reason for maintaining that it is a ..."

6. The Elements of Physical Chemistry by Harry Clary Jones (1915)
"EQUILIBRIUM IN SOLUTIONS OF electrolytes Solubility and Dissociation of ... When different electrolytes are brought in contact with a solvent like water, ..."

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