Definition of Hemihydrate

1. Noun. (chemistry) A hydrate whose solid contains one molecule of water of crystallization per two molecules, or per two unit cells ¹

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Definition of Hemihydrate

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemihydrate

hemiglossitis
hemiglyph
hemiglyphs
hemignathia
hemignathous
hemihedra
hemihedral
hemihedrism
hemihedrisms
hemihedrite
hemihedron
hemihepatectomy
hemihidrosis
hemiholohedral
hemihydranencephaly
hemihydrate (current term)
hemihydrated
hemihydrates
hemihypalgesia
hemihyperesthesia
hemihyperhidrosis
hemihyperidrosis
hemihypertonia
hemihypertrophy
hemihypesthesia
hemihypoesthesia
hemihypotonia
hemikaryon
hemiketal
hemiketals

Literary usage of Hemihydrate

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

1. Laboratory Methods of Inorganic Chemistry by Heinrich Biltz, Wilhelm Biltz (1909)
"Calcium Sulphate hemihydrate. Gypsum, as it occurs in nature, ... At higher temperatures the dihydrate breaks down into the hemihydrate, CaSO4. ..."

2. Laboratory Methods of Inorganic Chemistry by Heinrich Biltz, Wilhelm Biltz (1909)
"The product is the ordinary plaster of Paris, which consists of calcium sulphate hemihydrate, and which when mixed with water at a temperature below 107° ..."

3. Modern Inorganic Chemistry by Joseph William Mellor (1912)
"The hemihydrate is stable ... Plaster of Paris is a mixture of the anhydrous, dihydrate, and hemihydrate, and hence it is an unstable The change of the ..."

4. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1915)
"hemihydrate CaSO4. V2 H20 4. Soluble anhydride CaS04 The first two occur ... The hemihydrate is formed by heating the dihydrate to 107°C. or slightly above ..."

5. The Application of Physico-chemical Theory to Technical Processes and by Robert Konrad Kremann, Albert Mond (1913)
"We have mentioned that when preparing the hemihydrate, plaster of paris, in practice by burning the dihydrate, a temperature is chosen which is fairly high ..."

6. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, John Cannell Cain, Carl Schorlemmer (1913)
"93° 588 „ (3) Gypsum—hemihydrate 107° 971 „ These temperatures are considerably lowered by the presence of salts such as sodium chloride, magnesium chloride ..."

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