The water in a solution is called the solvent
The solvent is the water
Sugar water is a solution in which sugar is the solute and water is the solvent. The water dissolves the sugar.
solution ------- Sugar dissolved in water: sugar is the solute, water is the solvent; and the solute plus the solvent - is a solution !
When water is the solvent, the mixture is a solution.
The water in a solution is called the solvent
The solvent is water, the solute is salt; solvent and solute form a solution.
In a salt water solution, the salt is dissolved in the water, therefore salt is the solute and water is the solvent.
A solvent is a substance that dissolves the solute in a solution. For example, in salt water, water is the solvent and the salt is the solute. Water dissolves the salt.
Solvent. Solvents (usually liquids) dissolve solutes, resulting in a solution. Water is a protic solvent - any solvent that has a hydrogen atom bound to an oxygen or nitrogen group. Basically, it's any solvent that contains the labile H+.
Sodium chloride is a solute when is dissolved in water (the solvent).
The solvent is the substance which dissolve the solute; for a sugar solution water is the solvent and sugar the solute.