What's the difference between decomposition and dissolution?

Decomposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.
  • (n.) The state of being reduced into original elements.
  • (n.) Repeated composition; a combination of compounds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ADAM derivative of carnitine was separated from decomposition products of the reagent and related compounds such as amino acid derivatives on a silica gel column eluted with methanol-5% aqueous SDS-phosphoric acid (990:10:1).
  • (2) The decomposition of nafcillin and penicillin G solutions was hastened significantly by magnesium sulphate due to effect on the pH values of the solutions.
  • (3) The UV and IR absorption spectra of compounds present in the eluate were compared with those of model compounds that were assumed to exist in the gel as impurities after the polymerization (monomers and oligomers of hydroxyethyl methacrylate, decomposition products of initiators).
  • (4) The decomposition of nitrosourea is facilitated when a proton or lithium ion is positioned at the oxygen of the nitroso group.
  • (5) Inactivation is due to alkylation by 2-methylene-3(2H)-furanone, a decomposition product of the enzymic product 3'-keto-2'-deoxyuridine triphosphate.
  • (6) During heat treatment, decomposition to isopilocarpine predominated over decomposition to pilocarpic or isopilocarpic acid.
  • (7) The rate of decomposition of cis-4-OHCP was much faster in plasma than in buffer at pH 7.4.
  • (8) Hydroxyapatite thermal decomposition product is a mixture of alpha-tricalcium phosphate and tetracalcium phosphate.
  • (9) A quantitative assay has been developed for putrescine, cadaverine, histamine, and several free amino acids--lysine, arginine, and histidine--as a measure of decomposition.
  • (10) At temperatures of 200-300 degrees C hexamine decomposition is reported to produce mainly ammonia and formaldehyde.
  • (11) The hygienic control of polluted surface waters has to be correlated with measurements of the decomposition rate of heterotrophic microbial populations.
  • (12) Using the malonic acid concentration as a measure of decomposition, this method was used to determine the hydrolytic stability of Meldrum's acid and its skin penetration properties.
  • (13) Their growth development during the treatment agreed very well with the results of decomposition and deodorization.
  • (14) The kinetic 13C isotope effect on the decomposition of carbamoyl phosphate to cyanate and phosphate is 1.058.
  • (15) Enhanced esterification of cholesterol could function as an early primary factor injuring the myelin membrane, the lysocompounds may be involved at a later stage in the pathomechanism of myelin decomposition in the central nervous system.
  • (16) The cholesterol is possibly a decomposition product of the monohydrate.
  • (17) The importance of the decomposition of phosphatidylinosite and of its phosphate esters in binding of certain ligands to receptors is shown.
  • (18) By decomposition of reconstituted receptors with proteases, we demonstrated the homogeneous orientation of the receptor with its extracellular head group pointing to the convex side of the vesicles.
  • (19) The injected decomposition product was found to be solid at the time of sacrifice in all animals.
  • (20) The ion content of heart tissue was measured with flame spectrometer after the decomposition of myocardium by Lumatom tissue solubizer.

Dissolution


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
  • (n.) Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
  • (n.) Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
  • (n.) The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
  • (n.) The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
  • (n.) The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
  • (n.) The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
  • (n.) Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
  • (n.) Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
  • (2) A 2-fold increase in the dissolution rate was observed when the same number of particles was immobilized without macrophages.
  • (3) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
  • (4) At 30 days after injection both stains revealed cellular debris and glial reactions characteristic of cellular dissolution.
  • (5) The in vitro dissolution study carried out using dynamic dialysis revealed that the release of adriamycin from these particles follows a bi-phasic pattern.
  • (6) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
  • (7) However, in some patients absorption of the drug is markedly sensitive to changes in dissolution rate and new pharmacopoeal standards should not be defined until very rapidly-dissolving formulations have been studied.
  • (8) Instead, a repetitive, stepwise dissolution pattern was observed.
  • (9) In ancillary studies, multiple cycles of direct dissolution of UCB crystals revealed a progressive decrease in aqueous solubility of UCB as fine crystals were removed; this effect was minimal in CHCl3.
  • (10) Reductions in dissolution rates in a continuous-flow system could best be interpreted by assuming that they reflected changes in the area of the hydrophilic solid exposed to the solvent.
  • (11) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
  • (12) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
  • (13) The differences in the amounts of rapidly releasable calcium were attributed to different kinetics of calcium phosphate and calcium oxalate dissolution.
  • (14) The steps in the model are the drug elimination rate in the precornea and anterior chamber, the rate of drug dissolution, the rate of drug penetration into the cornea, and the rate of drug transport into the aqueous humor.
  • (15) Two commercial slow-release potassium chloride tablets, Slow-K and Addi-K have the characteristics of slow-release in the different dissolution conditions.
  • (16) Two consequences of these conditions are (1) patient classification into syndrome types (e.g., phonological dysgraphia, agrammatism, and so forth) can play no useful role in research concerned with issues about the structure of normal cognitive functioning or its dissolution under conditions of brain damage; and (2) only single-patient studies allow valid inferences about the structure of cognitive mechanisms from the analysis of impaired performance.
  • (17) Areas suggestive of cellular dissolution and disorganization were also reported in experimental parathyroids
  • (18) Speaking in Adelaide on Thursday as the government struggles to turn around its polling in South Australia before a possible double dissolution election, the prime minister went on the attack and said Labor was making major policy announcements on the fly.
  • (19) Although all three formulations were shown to have similar dissolution profiles, dissolution of chlorpropamide was pH-dependent in vitro.
  • (20) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.