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Solution
SOLU'TION, n. [L. solutio, from solvo, to loosen, melt, dissolve. See Solve.]
1. The act of separating the parts of any body; disruption; breach.
2. The operation or process of dissolving or melting in a fluid; as the solution of sugar or salt. [Note. This word is not used in chimistry or mineralogy for the dissolution or melting of bodies by the heat of fire.] The term solution is appiled to a very extensive class of phenomena. When a solid disappears in a liquid, if the compound exhibits perfect transparency, we have an example of solution. The word is applied both to the act of combination and to the result of the process. Thus common salt disappears in water, that is its solution takes place, and the liquid obtain ed is called a solution of salt in water. Solution is the result of attraction or affinity between. the fluid and the solid. This affinity continues to operate to a certain point, where it is overbalanced bly the cohesion of the solid; it then ceases the fluid issaid to be saturated, the point where the operation ceases is called saturation, and the fluid is called a saturated solution. Solution is a true chimical union. Mixture is a mere mechanicall union of bodies.
3. Resolution; explanation; the act of explaning or removing difficulty or doubt; as the solution of a doubt in casuistry.
4. Release; deliverance; discharge.
5. In algebra and geometry, the answering of a question, or the resolving of a problem proposed.
SOLUTION OF CONTINUITY, the separation of connection of connected substances or parts; applied, in surgery, to a fracture, laceration, etc.
solution appears in definitions for these words:
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Ammonium Ammoniuret Answer Apostasy Aversion Balsam Bleach Brome Calx Camel-backed Canon Caustic Concentrate Concoction Continuity Copal Cream Dew Dialysis Dissolution Dragons-blood Enodation Evaporation Extract Gelatin Gouland Infernal Insolvable Insuccation Integrant Intrigue Kermes-mineral Kill Knottiness Lac Laconism Lapidification Liquor Lyterian Macerate Macerated Macerating Metastasis Mucilage Neptunian Neptunist Nicotin Non-solution Opodeldoc Pellicle Pickle Porism Precipitable Precipitance Precipitate Precipitation Problem Rationale Reagent Resolvent Saturation Settle Soda-water Solubility Soluble Solution Sulphureted Tincture Trigonometry Tuf Ulcer Ulmin Unlimited Urinal Varnish Vegetation Verditer Weak Weaken Who Xanthogene Zetetic
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