General Salaries. In 2011, dental hygienists earned an average of $69,760 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The median wage â or âmidpointâ salary for this occupation â was $69,280 a year, which means that half of all hygienists earn this salary or more a year.
noun. The definition of electrolyte is a chemical compound that conducts electricity by changing into ions when melted or dissolved into a solution.An example of an electrolyte is sodium chloride.lectrolyte-Computer Definition. A liquid, gelatinous or solid material that contains ions. In a battery, the electrolyte is the material that allows electricity to flow from one plate to another (between positive and negative electrodes).
Electrolytes are substances which, when dissolved in water, break up into cations (plus-charged ions) and anions (minus-charged ions). We say they ionize. Strong electrolytes ionize completely (100%), while weak electrolytes ionize only partially (usually on the order of 1â10%). That is, the principal species in solution for strong electrolytes are ions, while the principal specie in solution for weak electrolytes is the un-ionized compound itself. Strong electrolytes fall into three categories: strong acids, strong bases, and salts. (Salts are sometimes also called ionic compounds, but really strong bases are ionic compounds as well.) The weak electrolytes include weak acids and weak bases.