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Electrolytes

"Electrolytes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Substances that dissociate into two or more ions, to some extent, in water. Solutions of electrolytes thus conduct an electric current and can be decomposed by it (ELECTROLYSIS). (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Electrolytes" by people in this website by year, and whether "Electrolytes" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2007
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