6. (Med.) (a) The termination of a disease; resolution. (b) A crisis.
(c) A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the
solid ingredients are wholly soluble. U. S. Disp.
Fehling's solution (Chem.), a standardized solution of cupric hydrate
in sodium potassium tartrate, used as a means of determining the
reducing power of certain sugars and sirups by the amount of red
cuprous oxide thrown down. -- Heavy solution (Min.), a liquid of high
density, as a solution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide (called
the Sonstadt or Thoulet solution) having a maximum specific gravity of
3.2, or of borotungstate of cadmium (Klein solution, specific gravity
3.6), and the like. Such solutions are much used in determining the
specific gravities of minerals, and in separating them when
mechanically mixed as in a pulverized rock. -- Nessler's solution. See
Nesslerize. -- Solution of continuity, the separation of connection, or
of connected substances or parts; -- applied, in surgery, to a
fracture, laceration, or the like. "As in the natural body a wound, or
solution of continuity, is worse than a corrupt humor, so in the
spiritual." Bacon. -- Standardized solution (Chem.), a solution which
is used as a reagent, and is of a known and standard strength;
specifically, a normal solution, containing in each cubic centimeter as
many milligrams of the element in question as the number representing
its atomic weight; thus, a normal solution of silver nitrate would
contain 107.7 mgr. of silver in each cubic centimeter.
Sol"u*tive (sl"*tv), a. [Cf. F. solutif.] Tending to dissolve;
loosening; laxative. Bacon.
Solv`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. [F. solvabilité.] 1. The quality or state of
being solvable; as, the solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of
a problem.
2. The condition of being solvent; ability to pay all just debts;
solvency; as, the solvability of a merchant.
Solv"a*ble (?), a. [F. solvable. See Solve, and cf. Soluble, Solvible.]
1. Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of
solution.
2. Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations.
Tooke.