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==Origin==
[[Latin]] ''dilutus'', past participle of ''diluere'' to wash away, dilute, from ''di''- + ''lavere'' to wash
==Definitions==
*1: attenuate
*2: to make thinner or more [[liquid]] by admixture <diluted wine>
*3: to diminish the [[strength]], [[flavor]], or [[brilliance]] of by admixture <dilute a [[color]]>
*4: to decrease the per share value of (common stock) by increasing the total [[number]] of shares
==Description==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy Homeopathy] involves a [[process]] known by practitioners as "dynamisation" or "potentisation" whereby a substance is diluted with alcohol or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water distilled water] and then [[vigorously]] shaken in a process called "succussion". Insoluble solids, such as [[quartz]] and oyster shell, are diluted by grinding them with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose lactose] (trituration). The founder of homeopathy, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hahnemann Samuel Hahnemann] (1755 — 1843) [[believed]] that the [[process]] of succussion activated the "vital energy" of the diluted substance, and that successive dilutions increased the "potency" of the remedy.
The [[idea]] is not generally accepted outside the field of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy homeopathy]. Considering the [[understanding]] of modern [[biochemistry]], it is [[paradoxical]] that a process of dilution would arrive at a higher potency than a lower dilution, and in some highly diluted preparations there is very low [[probability]] for even a single [[molecule]] of the original substance being present.
Homeopaths maintain that this solution retains some "essential property" of the original material, because the preparation has been shaken after each dilution. Hahnemann [[believed]] that the dynamisation or shaking of the solution caused a "[[spirit]]-like" [[healing]] [[force]] to be released from within the substance. Even though the homeopathic remedies are often extremely diluted, homeopaths maintain that a [[healing]] force is retained by these homeopathic preparations.
==See also==
*'''''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_dilution Serial dilution]
[[Category: Chemistry]]
==Origin==
[[Latin]] ''dilutus'', past participle of ''diluere'' to wash away, dilute, from ''di''- + ''lavere'' to wash
==Definitions==
*1: attenuate
*2: to make thinner or more [[liquid]] by admixture <diluted wine>
*3: to diminish the [[strength]], [[flavor]], or [[brilliance]] of by admixture <dilute a [[color]]>
*4: to decrease the per share value of (common stock) by increasing the total [[number]] of shares
==Description==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy Homeopathy] involves a [[process]] known by practitioners as "dynamisation" or "potentisation" whereby a substance is diluted with alcohol or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water distilled water] and then [[vigorously]] shaken in a process called "succussion". Insoluble solids, such as [[quartz]] and oyster shell, are diluted by grinding them with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose lactose] (trituration). The founder of homeopathy, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hahnemann Samuel Hahnemann] (1755 — 1843) [[believed]] that the [[process]] of succussion activated the "vital energy" of the diluted substance, and that successive dilutions increased the "potency" of the remedy.
The [[idea]] is not generally accepted outside the field of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy homeopathy]. Considering the [[understanding]] of modern [[biochemistry]], it is [[paradoxical]] that a process of dilution would arrive at a higher potency than a lower dilution, and in some highly diluted preparations there is very low [[probability]] for even a single [[molecule]] of the original substance being present.
Homeopaths maintain that this solution retains some "essential property" of the original material, because the preparation has been shaken after each dilution. Hahnemann [[believed]] that the dynamisation or shaking of the solution caused a "[[spirit]]-like" [[healing]] [[force]] to be released from within the substance. Even though the homeopathic remedies are often extremely diluted, homeopaths maintain that a [[healing]] force is retained by these homeopathic preparations.
==See also==
*'''''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_dilution Serial dilution]
[[Category: Chemistry]]