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๐ฌ Think about it
- You stir a spoon of sugar into a glass of water.
- Three things are now in front of you — the sugar, the water, and the sweet liquid.
- Each of the three has its own name in science. What are they?
What are solute, solvent and solution?
A spoon of sugar in a glass of water
Sugar → Solute
the thing that dissolves
usually the smaller quantity
Water → Solvent
the thing that does the dissolving
usually the larger quantity
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Sugar solution
solute + solvent together
- The solute is the substance that gets dissolved, and it is mostly present in a smaller quantity.
- The solvent is the substance that dissolves the solute, and it is mostly present in a larger quantity.
- A solution is a mixture in which one substance mixes completely into another.
- So we can say — every solution is a homogeneous mixture .
Definition
Solute — the substance that dissolves. Solvent — the substance in which it dissolves. Solution — the homogeneous mixture the two form together.
And how much solute has gone into the solution?
- The amount of solute dissolved in a given amount of solvent or solution is called the concentration of the solution .
- Let us take this up in the next topic.
