17:54 Jan 11 

Thank you, Doctor. No, you are not a "mere" doctor! you are a scientist as well. I know that from having followed the answers and explanations you provide on a regular basis. Yes, we are not here to argue. We just say what we know... one can agree or disagree... not trying to win an argument. I am doing what is expected of us - to participate...

17:48 Jan 11 

Thank you Dr Darakjian for your support. Difficult to argue chemistry with someone with your credentials, I should think. Of course I'm a mere medical doctor, and a woman to boot. What would I know? ;-)

17:45 Jan 11 

put back into solution (your suggestion) or resolubilize are still identical terms
Absolutely not.

Also, a detergent is not a solvent.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-03/954179521.Ch.r....

14:21 Jan 11 

14:03 Jan 11 

Solubilization is sufficiently different (mechanism-wise) from dissolving that linguists and chemists have assigned a different verb to it, namely, to solubilize... We would not go ahead and refer to a truck as a big car, even though that's what it is!

13:15 Jan 11 

This would totally contradict your agreement with re-dissolution it seems. Where is the coherence in that?
put back into solution (your suggestion) or resolubilize are still identical terms.

13:08 Jan 11 

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1997990
As a former (bio)chemist, I can say that solve is not used in this context - one solves problems and equations etc. Solvate has a specific meaning as noted above. Solubilize does indeed mean to do something to an insoluble substance to render it soluble. Dissolve is the word needed to describe what happens to e.g. sugar when you put it into water : either "It dissolves" or "You dissolve it".

http://www.wordnik.com/words/solubilization
n. The act of solubilizing something, of rendering it soluble

13:03 Jan 11 

You are the one saying it does not mean that. So to stay on your level, please support seriously your statement..

12:59 Jan 11 

Any proof of that?

12:38 Jan 11 

Resolubilize means to put back into solution form.

12:09 Jan 11 

OK thanks very much everyone for your help, I've at least clarified what words to eliminate!

12:05 Jan 11 

12:01 Jan 11 

Agree with SJLD here. Reconstituted wouldn't convey the right meaning.

11:58 Jan 11 

I don't think so. You can talk about the reconstitution of a solution (usually a powdered or lyophilized drug put in solution or suspended by adding water), but not of a precipitate.

11:57 Jan 11 

tends to imply alteration of form or substance from what was there previously.

11:54 Jan 11 

Can reconstituted be used?

11:53 Jan 11 

Thanks, the same text also talks about "resuspension du précipité" so I am assuming I can't use resuspension for both terms.

11:25 Jan 11 

Note also that suspensions and solutions are not the same.

11:23 Jan 11 

10:55 Jan 11 

thanks SJLD for the clarification, I'll eliminate that one

10:53 Jan 11 

Thanks for everyone for the help so far. I get 79200 hits for "the precipitate was resuspended" and 41000 for "the precipitate was redissolved" and 3390 for "the precipitate was resolubilzed" - I am still uncertain

10:51 Jan 11 

means to make (more) soluble - increase the solubility of a substance - it does not mean to dissolve or make a solution