What Does Hydrated Mean?

The word hydrated is mostly used in chemistry and it conveys the meaning of a class of compounds that contain water as its constituent. There are several examples of this kind of compounds and one we come across most often is washing soda. In washing soda water is loosely held and the compound looses it easily when you heat it. But in contrast to washing soda, sulfuric acid is another hydrated compound which strongly holds water, one of its constituent.

The word is derived from hydrate that means to absorb water and as water is one of the prime constituents of the compound it is named as such.

Sometimes the word is also being used for paper pulp that is beaten until it turned into gelatinous that is suitable for making the water-resistant paper.

The word 'hydration' is used as a noun to describe the process of absorbing water but one of the distinct attribute of the process is that it is reversible also. Sometimes the process of addition of water to a molecule without hydrolysis is also termed as hydration and the process of providing ample amount of liquid to the tissues of body is known as such too.

The word is not heard very often in our daily life but some other words that can seek the same root as that of the abovementioned one are being used quite often. One such word is dehydration which we come across very often and as it looks literally, the term conveys the idea of taking out water from a body.

Hydrated - contains water... Dehydrated - contains no water..... I think.... Non scientifically answered of course.

Webster's dictionary: Chemically combined with water at the molecular level. When I was a more active bicyclist, we spoke of hydrating ourselves when we drank water.

hydrated means that there is water present

Its a chemical compound of water and another substance (Or cause to absorb or combine with water.)

Well it pretty much means you are NOT thirsty.