{"id":835,"date":"2010-07-09T03:33:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T11:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2010-07-09T03:33:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T11:33:39","slug":"what-is-an-electrolyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"What is an electrolyte?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <strong>electrolyte<\/strong> is <em>&#8220;any compound that, in solution or in molten  form, conducts electricity and is decomposed (electrolyzed) by it. It  is an ionizable substance in solution&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>.An electrolyte is any substance that contains free ions  that behaves as an electrically conductive medium (conducts  electricity). All higher forms of life cannot exist without  electrolytes, and that includes humans.<\/p>\n<p>In our bodies, electrolytes include sodium (Na<sup>+<\/sup>), potassium  (K<sup>+<\/sup>), calcium (Ca<sup>2+<\/sup>), bicarbonate (HCO<sub>3<\/sub><sup>&#8211;<\/sup>,  magnesium (Mg<sup>2+<\/sup>),  chloride (C1<sup>&#8211;<\/sup>), hydrogen  phosphate (HPO<sub>4<\/sub><sup>2-<\/sup>), and hydrogen carbonate (HCO<sub>3<\/sub><sup>&#8211;<\/sup>).  Electrolytes regulate our nerve and muscle function, our body&#8217;s  hydration, blood pH, blood pressure, the rebuilding of damaged tissue.  Various mechanisms exist in our body that keep the concentrations of  different electrolytes under strict control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electrolyte is &#8220;any compound that, in solution or in molten form, conducts electricity and is decomposed (electrolyzed) by it. It is an ionizable substance in solution&#8221;. .An electrolyte is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=835\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[8273,8274,8275],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-you-know","tag-an-electrolyte-is-any-substance","tag-electrolyte","tag-what-is-an-electrolyte","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}