Hydration vs. Solution — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hydration and Solution
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Hydration
A solid compound containing water molecules combined in a definite ratio as an integral part of the crystal. Often used in combination
Pentahydrate.
Solution
A method or process of dealing with a problem
Sought a solution to falling enrollments.
Hydration
To rehydrate.
Solution
The answer to a problem or the explanation for something
The solution to the mystery.
Hydration
To supply water to (a person, for example) in order to restore or maintain fluid balance
"Cold water is the fastest and safest way to hydrate an ordinary athlete" (Jane E. Brody).
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Solution
A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances, which may be solids, liquids, gases, or a combination of these.
Hydration
To become a hydrate.
Solution
The process of forming such a mixture.
Hydration
(chemistry) The incorporation of water molecules into a complex with those of another compound.
Solution
The state of being dissolved
Nitrogen that is in solution in the ocean.
Hydration
(biology) The process of providing an adequate amount of water to body tissues.
Solution
(Archaic) The act of separating or breaking up; dissolution.
Hydration
(construction) The chemical reaction by which a substance (such as cement) combines with water, giving off heat to form a crystalline structure in its setting and hardening.
Solution
A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
Hydration
The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.
Solution
An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
Hydration
The process of combining with water; usually reversible
Solution
An answer to a problem.
Solution
(marketing) A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
Solution
Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
Solution
The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid; dissolution.
Solution
The crisis of a disease.
Solution
To treat with a solution.
Solution
The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.
In all bodies there is an appetite of union and evitation of solution of continuity.
Solution
The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; - used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.
Solution
The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.
It is unquestionably an enterprise of more promise to assail the nations in their hour of faintness and solution, than at a time when magnificent and seductive systems of worship were at their height of energy and splendor.
Solution
The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product resulting from such absorption.
Solution
Release; deliverance; discharge.
Solution
The termination of a disease; resolution.
Solution
A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution;
He used a solution of peroxide and water
Solution
A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem;
They were trying to find a peaceful solution
The answers were in the back of the book
He computed the result to four decimal places
Solution
A method for solving a problem;
The easy solution is to look it up in the handbook
Solution
The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
Solution
The successful action of solving a problem;
The solution took three hours
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