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.
