How to use solute in a sentence
They bestowed ranks and designations upon themselves, even creating protocol such as solutes and secure passwords.
The Extinction Parade: An Original Zombie Story by Max Brooks | Max Brooks | January 14, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThis definition is inexact, since no membrane permeable to water is absolutely impermeable to the solutes.
The Mechanism of Life | Stphane LeducLiving beings are but solutions of colloids and crystalloids, and their tissues are built up by the aggregation of these solutes.
The Mechanism of Life | Stphane LeducThis is different from what we found in the case of non-volatile solutes (p. 126).
The Phase Rule and Its Applications | Alexander Findlay
British Dictionary definitions for solute
/ (sɒˈljuːt) /
the component of a solution that changes its state in forming the solution or the component that is not present in excess; the substance that is dissolved in another substance: Compare solvent
botany rare loose or unattached; free
Origin of solute
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for solute
[ sŏl′yōōt ]
A substance that is dissolved in another substance (a solvent), forming a solution.
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