Hydration

In chemistry, hydration is the condition of being combined with water.

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Hydration can create a hydrate from which water can be reextracted. When hydration occurs in a chemical reaction it is called a hydration reaction, in which water is permanently and chemically combined with a reactant in a way that it can no longer be reextracted.

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An example of a hydration reaction is acid-catalyzed hydration of the carbon-carbon double bond in an alkene. H+ and OH- is added via Markovnikov's rule.

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Hydration can cause hydrolysis.

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An example of hydrate synthesis is hydration of a carbonyl group.

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Hydration also is used to mean getting water into an organism, usually human. This is important when large amounts of body fluid are lost, such as by sweating.

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Chemistry: Chemistry (in Greek: χημεία) is the science of matter that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the transformations that they undergo. In the study of matter, chemistry also investigates its interactions with energy and itself (se...

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Hydrate: Hydrates are compounds formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts. (If the water is heavy water, where the hydrogen consists of the isotope deuterium, then the term deuterate may be used in place of hydrate.)...

Hydration related Images and Photos (experimental)

Monster High Lagoona Blue's Hydration Station