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How do you explain the phrase like dissolves like in terms of polar and nonpolar substances?
Polar substances dissolve other polar substances, and nonpolar substances dissolve other nonpolar substances. A polar substance cannot dissolve a polar substance and a nonpolar substance cannot dissolve a polar substance.
When a substance does not dissolve in water it is called what?
it is called insoluble
What do you call that substances cannot be dissolve in the water?
insoluble substance
What Solvent substance dissolves in saltwater?
A solvent cannot dissolve. You can dissolve a solute in a solvent, e.g. you can dissolve sugar in water - sugar is the solute, and water is the solvent. You cannot dissolve water though.
What kind of substance cannot dissolve in water?
A non-polar substance especially the one that does not react with water... Have you seen a powder not dissolving in water? its possible. take some amount of sulphur and put it in water. it will be floating in water. wont dissolve.
What is the type of substance that does not dissolve?
If a substance cannot be dissolved it is called insoluble.
What is a substance called that does not dissolve?
A substance is insoluble when it cannot be dissolved into a solution.
What is it called when sand or rock will not dissolve?
When a substance cannot dissolve in another, which usually occurs because one of the substances can interact through the electromagnetic force and the other cannot, the substance is said to be "insoluble" in the other substance.
What term refers to a solute that cannot be dissolved in a particular solvent?
Actually, the solute is the substance that getsdissolved in the solvent A substance that won't dissolve in called insoluble
When a substance doesnt dissolve in water what is it said to be?
This substance is insoluble in water.
How do you explain the phrase like dissolves like in terms of polar and nonpolar substances?
Polar substances dissolve other polar substances, and nonpolar substances dissolve other nonpolar substances. A polar substance cannot dissolve a polar substance and a nonpolar substance cannot dissolve a polar substance.
What is a substance dissolve in another substance called?
"solute"
What is a solvent called when it can not dissolve?
It is not adequate for this type of substance; and the substance is called insoluble.
What do you mean when you say a substance is insoluble in other substances?
It means that a substance cannot dissolve in other substance
When a substance does not dissolve in water it is called what?
it is called insoluble
What do you call that substances cannot be dissolve in the water?
insoluble substance
What is the substance that dissolve a in a solution?
The substance that dissolves is called the "solute" and the substance that the solute dissolves in is called the "solvent".
