Water Of Crystallization Definition

Water Of Crystallization Sentence Examples

• Moisture is evolved from substances containing water of crystallization or decomposed hydrates.

• When heated they liquefy; and if the heating be continued, the water of crystallization is driven off, the salt froths and^swells, and at last an amorphous powder remains.

• It dissolves most organic compounds, resins, hydrocarbons, fatty acids and many metallic salts, sometimes forming, in the latter case, crystalline compounds in which the ethyl alcohol plays a role similar to that of water of crystallization.

• The salt crystallizes in large yellow plates, containing three molecules of water of crystallization.

• Rubidium carbonate, Rb2C03, formed by the addition of ammonium carbonate to rubidium hydroxide, is a crystalline mass which melts in its water of crystallization when heated.