Science has many terms starting with 'Hydro' Here are a few of them, with their meanings

  1. Hydrogen: Colourless, tasteless, odourless and highly inflammable gas, the lightest element.

  2. Hydrocarbon: Compounds of hydrogen and carbon.

  3. Hydrophobia: Fear of water, Important symptom of the Fatal disease Rabies.

  4. Hydroponics: Cultivation of plants by planting the roots in nutrient solutions rather than in soil.

  5. Hydrosphere: Water bodies on earth's surface constitute hydrosphere.

  6. Hydrolysis: Chemical reaction of substance with water.

  7. Hydrogenation: Chemical reaction of a substance with hydrogen, Chemical reduction.

  8. Hydrocephalus: Accumulation of fluids in the brain.

  9. Hydrology:  The Study of water with reference to its occurrence and atmosphere.

  10. Hydropathy: Curing a disease by internal and external use of water.

  11. Hydrostatics: Mathematical study of forces and pressure in stationary liquids.

  12. Hydrodynamics: Mathematical study of forces and pressure in liquids in motion.

  13. Hydro Metallurgy : Process of extraction of  metals by leaching the ore with water. Also called levitation.

  14. Hyrosol: Colloid in which water acts as the dispersion medium.

 

Amarpal Grewal
Class XII Sc. Nm