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dissolving

dissolving

3.0
A process where something mixes into a liquid to make a mixture
  • noun
  • /dɪˈzɑlvɪŋ/
translation icon : disolución
  • The scientist demonstrated the process of dissolving sugar in hot water to make a syrup.

And Chuck, how does dissolving the salt molecule in water make its atoms ionize?

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Examples

  • Because the reaction of dissolving sulfur trioxide into water is an extremely exothermic reaction, generates a ton of heat.

  • And Chuck, how does dissolving the salt molecule in water make its atoms ionize?

  • Nope, it's not really dissolving into it at all.

  • So that is dissolving the barrier between me and the rest, OK, Me and other.

  • And slowly I feel like it's dissolving and breaking down the walls of self hatred.

  • It's actually picking up bits of oxygen in the air and it's actually dissolving as it hits the ground in dissolved oxygen.

  • Well, it is made by dissolving phosphorus pentoxide in water.

  • If we're not getting it naturally in the foods that we're eating, how do you know if it's even dissolving at the right part of the digestive process?

  • Mass of liquid distended to cohesive slab of rain slipping through hillside in which is suspended a brambledome of dissolving animals.

  • Dissolving salt in water creates a saline solution that is used in many recipes.

Synonyms

dissolution
vsdissolving
  • Specialized
2 6.8

The process of a substance mixing into a liquid, like sugar in tea

is the verb-form used to describe the same ongoing process
solubilization
vsdissolving
  • Specialized
7.7

Changing a substance so it dissolves or mixes into a liquid

is the process of becoming incorporated into a liquid to form a solution
solvation
vsdissolving
  • Specialized
9.3

Liquid molecules surround and mix with small particles or ions to make a solution

describes the overall incorporation into a liquid, not the molecular interaction

Compounds

dissolving agent
  • Specialized
4.3

Liquid that makes other materials become part of it, like water

How Dissolved

solution
  • Specialized
99 3.0
dissolving
3.0
suspension
  • Specialized
6 5.7

Surface Forms

dissolving singular
dissolvings plural

Morphology

dissolving = dissolve (transparent) = dissolve + ing

Standard gerund/nominalization from the verb 'dissolve' indicating the process; meaning is directly derivable from the base verb.

Etymology

Dissolving comes from dis- 'apart' and solve (from Latin solvere) 'to loosen', so imagine the parts of something being 'loosened apart' in water. That's why dissolving means a solid breaks up and mixes into a liquid to make a 'solution', like sugar in tea.