Solubility: The amount of mass of a compound that will dissolve in a unit volume of water.
Solute: Any substance derived from the atmosphere, vegetation, soil, or rock that is dissolved in water.
Solubility: The amount of mass of a compound that will dissolve in a unit volume of solution. Aqueous Solubility is the maximum concentration of a chemical that will dissolve in pure water at a reference temperature.
Solubility: amount of a substance that will dissolve in a given amount of another substance, typically water.
Soluble: capable of being dissolved easily.
Solvent: liquid capable of dissolving another substance.
solubility The amount of one substance that will dissolve in another to produce a saturated solution.
soluble Capable of dissolving readily.
solum Upper weatherd part of the soil (A and B horizons).
Water Solubility: The maximum possible concentration of a chemical compound dissolved in water. If a substance is water soluble it can very readily disperse through the environment.
Lipid Solubility
The maximum concentration of a chemical that will dissolve in fatty substances. Lipid soluble substances are insoluble in water. They will very selectively disperse through the environment via uptake in living tissue.
Water Solubility: The solubility of a substance in water provides information on the fate and transport in the environment.
water solubility. The maximum concentration of a chemical compound which can result when it is dissolved in water. If a substance is water soluble, it can very readily disperse through the environment.
Solubility: The total quantity of chemical that will remain in a solution in contact with the solid or NAPL from which the chemical is derived.
Solute: A substance dissolved in a solution.
Solubility - The largest amount of a substance that can be dissolved in a given amount of a liquid, usually water. For a highly water-soluble compound, such as table salt, a lot can dissolve in water. Motor oil is only slightly soluble in water.
Ratio of the solubility of a chemical in octanol divided by its solubility in water.
Defined as pH - 1/2p(Ca + Mg) - 1/3(pKg - pY) where Kg is the solubility product of gibbsite and Y is the value of the ionic product (Al)(OH)3 in the soil solution.
A proposed positive feedback cycle involves the outgassing of carbon dioxide from the planet's oceans: Since CO2 solubility in water DECREASES with temperature and since CO2 is a greenhouse gas, ...
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): compounds that vaporize easily and have low water solubility that are often human-made chemicals used and produced in the manufacture of paints, pharmaceuticals, ...
The ionic strength of a solution affects the solubility of compounds, most often increasing the solubility. This means that in the environment, chemicals could be more soluble in a "salt" solution than in pure water.
Treatment methods that are used to effect the complete breakdown of hazardous waste into non-toxic gases or, more frequently, to modify the chemical properties of the waste, for example, through reduction of water solubility or neutralisation of ...
The other form is by induced hyper-accumulation, where conditioning fluids containing chelators, or another element known as a mobilizing agent, is added to soil to increase metal solubility or mobilization in soil so that plants can absorb them ...
 See also: Water, Environment, Condition, Soil, Toxic
  
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