cryohydric, a.
(kraɪəʊˈhaɪdrɪk)
[f. cryohydrate + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to a ‘cryohydrate’; cryohydric point or cryohydric temperature, the eutectic point or temperature of a solution of a salt in water.
| 1890 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LVII. 361 A solution at the cryohydric point is the coldest of the same solvent and dissolved substance obtainable. 1902 G. S. Newth Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. (ed. 9) i. xiv. 155 Such a solution is known as a constant-freezing solution, or sometimes a cryohydric solution. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 569/1 The solution must..become saturated with respect to both ice and salt, and this can only occur at the cryohydric temperature. 1940 Glasstone Physical Chem. x. 762 The terms cryohydrate and cryohydric point are obsolescent and will not be employed further. 1964 G. W. Castellan Physical Chem. xv. 299 The eutectic mixture was originally thought to be a compound. In aqueous systems, this ‘compound’ was called a cryohydrate; the eutectic point was called the cryohydric point. |