aqueous solution

Frequency: 8.025.5 per million words

Used in scientific contexts, especially chemistry, to describe a solution in which the solvent is water.

aqueousADJECTIVE + NOUN

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solution

Examples (10)

  • Salt dissolved in water forms an aqueous solution.
  • Prepare a 0.1 molar aqueous solution of copper sulfate for the experiment.
  • When the two chemicals were mixed, they formed a clear, colorless aqueous solution.
  • The electrical conductivity of the aqueous solution was measured at different temperatures.
  • What is the pH of a saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride?
  • The reaction proceeds much faster in an aqueous solution than in an organic solvent.
  • Photosynthesis involves complex reactions that occur within an aqueous solution inside plant cells.
  • Many industrial cleaning agents are simply a concentrated aqueous solution of various detergents.
  • The chemist carefully titrated the acidic aqueous solution with a base.
  • For the next step, we will need to dilute the stock aqueous solution by a factor of ten.