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What (who) is anhydrous - definition
WATERLESS SUBSTANCE
Waterless
anhydrous
[an'h??dr?s]
¦ adjective Chemistry containing no water.
Origin
C19: from Gk anudros (from an- 'without' + hudor 'water') + -ous.
Anhydrous
·adj Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.
Anhydrous
A substance is anhydrous if it contains no water. Many processes in chemistry can be impeded by the presence of water; therefore, it is important that water-free reagents and techniques are used.
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Anhydrous
A substance is anhydrous if it contains no water. Many processes in chemistry can be impeded by the presence of water; therefore, it is important that water-free reagents and techniques are used. In practice, however, it is very difficult to achieve perfect dryness; anhydrous compounds gradually absorb water from the atmosphere so they must be stored carefully.
Examples of use of anhydrous
1. Anhydrous ammonia can be extremely toxic and may be fatal if inhaled.
2. Anhydrous ammonia leaked from a 30,000–gallon tank that had ruptured Monday at Agri–Chem Inc., an agricultural supply company.
3. The fire involved an estimated 88,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, plus the plant had 100,000 pounds of nonflammable carbon dioxide, which is used in refrigeration systems, she said.
4. The search–and–rescue effort stalled briefly Monday after an overturned storage tank began spewing anhydrous ammonia, a toxic substance used for fertilizer by farmers.
5. Elsewhere, an elementary school and nearby homes were evacuated because of a leak of anhydrous ammonia, a fertilizer, at a town in western Kentucky.