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Solutions Terminology
Dissolving has a vocabulary of its own, and every term in it names a role. Sea water carries the whole set in one example: the water is the solvent, the salt is the solute, and the mixture itself is the solution. Add enough salt and the water refuses to take more — the saturated state — which the Dead Sea shows on a grand scale.
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Everyday life already teaches this note: stirring sugar into tea or salt into soup shows something vanishing into a liquid. That liquid, that vanished substance and the resulting mixture each carry a precise name, and this note fixes the vocabulary — solvent, solute, solution, saturated solution, soluble, insoluble — using sea water, where all of them appear at once.
Key points of understanding
- The solvent is the liquid doing the dissolving; in sea water it is the water.
- The solute is the substance that dissolves; in sea water it is the salt.
- A solution is the mixture formed once a solute has dissolved in a solvent.
- A saturated solution holds the maximum amount of dissolved solute the solvent can take, as with sea water in the Dead Sea.
- Soluble describes a substance that will dissolve, and insoluble describes one that will not, like sand in water.
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1.Solutions Terminology
Dissolving has a vocabulary of its own, and every term in it names a role. Sea water carries the whole set in one example: the water is the solvent, the salt is the solute, and the mixture itself is the solution. Add enough salt and the water refuses to take more — the saturated state — which the Dead Sea shows on a grand scale.
Key points
- The solvent is the liquid doing the dissolving; in sea water it is the water.
- The solute is the substance that dissolves; in sea water it is the salt.
- A solution is the mixture formed once a solute has dissolved in a solvent.
- A saturated solution holds the maximum amount of dissolved solute the solvent can take, as with sea water in the Dead Sea.
- Soluble describes a substance that will dissolve, and insoluble describes one that will not, like sand in water.
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