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What does hydrous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chemistry) containing combined water; hydrated
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A complex system of pipeline water of rain collected then in large impluvia was useful for the hydrous provisioning of the area.
If such adiabatic freezing were to control the ascent of hydrous mafic magmas, basalts would probably never erupt in volcanic arcs.
Furthermore, the textural evidence implies that the main hydrous minerals in this rock, staurolite and biotite, largely predate garnet growth.
Grain-scale brittle dilatancy would increase permeability, readily promoting the influx of CO2-rich hydrous fluids into the fault zone soon after its initiation.
Opaline silica is a friable hydrous silica found near hot springs and geysers.
Moreover, magnesian and hydrous magmas such as boninites and lamprophyres apparently find no difficulty in traversing the crust.

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