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This kind of technique is used in making fudge, and is very important. You don't want crunchy fudge, do you :)
First, you will need sugar (any kind will do), and some hot water or other solvent, but I would use water. So do you know that hot water dissolves more solute than cold water? Well, you then saturate the hot water with the sugar, and SLOWLY (slow is very important) cool down the sugar water mixture. Also, DO NOT AGITATE IT. For example, soda is a super saturated solution, it's super saturated with carbon dioxide. If you shake the soda can (agitating it), the carbon dioxide will separate from the rest of the soda, which causes the (highly entertaining) explosion of soda following. If you agitate it, the sugar will recrystalize and you will have to start over. Now, if it is cooled down fast enough, it will become super saturated, and won't recrystalize.
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What is the best way to make a supersaturated solution?
Heat the solution
How do you produce three solutions of sugar in water an unsaturated solution and a supersaturated solution?
Unsaturated, the sugar will dissolve and you won't see any sugar solutessaturated, when the solution has all the solutes that it can take and dissovledsuper saturated, there is too much sugar and you can see the sugar solutes
How do you identify a supersaturated solution?
A supersaturated solution has two phases: liquid and solid.
How can a saturated solution become supersaturated?
How a saturated solution can become supersaturated?
A supersaturated solution contains less dissolved solute than a saturated solution at the same temperature?
A solution that contains less than the maximum amount of solute that it is able to hold at a given temperature is unsaturated.
If you cool the solution slowly and sugar does not settle out as it cools you know the solution is?
Supersaturated
What is the best way to make a supersaturated solution?
Heat the solution
What is the best way to make a supersaturated?
Heat the solution
What is the original solution if a crystal is added to an aqueous solution causes many particles to come out of the solution?
Supersaturated.
Can evaporation make a saturated solution unsaturated?
No, evaporation will most likely make the solution supersaturated
What happens to a supersaturated solution?
The solute will eventually fall out of a supersaturated solution
What will happen to a supersaturated solution?
The solute will eventually fall out of a supersaturated solution
Does sugar water have to be heated to create rock candy?
yes it has to be heated in water in a supersaturated solution.
What are the science concept to rock candy?
rock candy is formed in a supersaturated solution of sugar & water.
How do you produce three solutions of sugar in water an unsaturated solution and a supersaturated solution?
Unsaturated, the sugar will dissolve and you won't see any sugar solutessaturated, when the solution has all the solutes that it can take and dissovledsuper saturated, there is too much sugar and you can see the sugar solutes
How do you identify a supersaturated solution?
A supersaturated solution has two phases: liquid and solid.
How can you describe the equilibrium in a saturated solution?
No. A saturated solution is still in equilibrium. If you bring it into contact with more of the solute, the concentration will remain the same. Solute will precipitate out at the same rate that more solute dissolves into the solution. An unstable equilibrium would be a supersaturated solution. In a supersaturated solution, more of the solute is in solution that would be equilibrium with the solid solute (or gas if you are dissolving gas for example). An example that many people are familiar with is dissolving a lot of sugar into hot water. As it cools down, the solution becomes supersaturated. As long as there is nothing for the sugar to nucleate on , the sugar can remain in solution indefinitely. If you hang a string in the solution, the sugar will start crystalizing on the string, forming "rock candy."
