How do solvents work?

Answer 1

The answer is "It dissolves something else" on Apex

Answer 2

The answer is "It dissolves something else" on Apex

Answer 3

Solvents work to strip products such as woods or metals. They eat away at what ever they are applied to. It is important to make sure proper safety steps are taken prior to working with any type of solvent.

Answer 4

Solvents are used so widely, we can't begin to count all their applications. In general, we use solvent to "carry" materials that we wish to use. Let's look at some applications and begin to grasp why we use solvents. In all the places where we say "solution", we are saying "solute(s) in solvent(s)" because that's what a solution is. In food, we use solvents to dissolve certain things in order to create a product. Soft drinks have sweeteners, coloring agents and flavoring additives dissolved in water, which is the solvent for this solution. Heck, liquid food coloring itself is coloring agent in a water solvent. And pancake syrup is pretty much the same thing as soda pop, only with less water. Water is the solvent of choice for coffee and tea. Lots of liquids associated with food rely on solvents, and mainly water. Think about all the personal care items you use. The liquids are solutions made from a solvent or solvents, and from a solute or solutes. Lots of pharmaceuticals are solutions. And don't get started on liquid cleaning products. There are a ton of solutions (containing solvents and solutes) on the market, and you have a good handful of these products in your own home. In industry, we use the heck out of solvents to create all kinds of solutions. Paint (just one product from the coatings industry) has a solvent in it to thin it out to the proper consistency for effective use. The chemical industry uses an almost countless number of solvents to make up solutions which can be used in chemical production. The world's oceans are solutions, and blood plasma is a solution. Everywhere we look, a solvent has been used to create a solution by dissolving a solute.

Answer 5

A solvent dissolve a solute (as an example water is a solvent for table salt).

Answer 6

It is the solvents which dissolve the solutes. This is done by various forms of chemical bonding or attraction between the different molecules or atoms.

Answer 7

The solvent is the liquid which dissolve the solute.

Example: salted water - the solvent is the water, the solute is the sodium chloride.

Answer 8

A solvent dissolve another substance called solute.

Answer 9

solutes dissolve in solvents