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adjective

Aqueous adj.

Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery. "The aqueous vapor of the air."

Made from, or by means of, water. "An aqueous deposit."

Aqueous extract, an extract obtained from a vegetable substance by steeping it in water.

Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.)

Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; called also sedimentary rocks.

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Etymology of 'Aqueous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Aqueous" Quotes from Famous Books

... poured out a cup of the decoction which Frenchmen call tea, an aqueous product, the fluid of chopped hay long stewed in tepid water, and then ...

— The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea • Max Pemberton

... for a moment on this result, for, although it may be somewhat foreign to our present purpose and to the further observations of Haberlandt, it is very significant in itself. The water moves in the plant in closed cells, as the cells of the aqueous gland are entirely closed, but the organic membrane, as every one knows, has the peculiar physical property of allowing water to pass through, the pressure, of course, being applied on the side of least resistance; when therefore ...

— At the Deathbed of Darwinism - A Series of Papers • Eberhard Dennert

... trousers into sodden sacks. Some weather isn't fit for dogs, but this weather wasn't good enough for tadpoles—even fish would have kicked at it and kept in their holes. Imagine, then, the anomaly! Amidst all this aqueous inferno, this slippery-sloppery, filth-bespattering inferno, a spotlessly clean apparition in blue without either waterproof or umbrella. I refer to Jane. She suddenly appeared, as I was passing The Ladies' Tea Association ...

— Scottish Ghost Stories • Elliott O'Donnell

... grade, suitable for glass polishing, is best obtained from practical opticians (not mere sellers of optical instruments). I mean people like Messrs. Cook of York. Many years ago I prepared my own hard rouge by precipitating ferrous sulphate solution by aqueous ammonia, washing the precipitate, and heating it to a red heat. The product was ground up with water, and washed to get rid of large particles. This answered every purpose, and I could not find that ...

— On Laboratory Arts • Richard Threlfall

... denudation it was subjected to by frequent rains, it had been cut down and sloped into those beautiful hills and dales which now so much pleased the eye; for there were none of those quartz dykes I had seen protruding through the same kink of aqueous formations in Usui and Karague; nor were there any other sorts of volcanic disturbance to distort the calm ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

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