The addition of solute to a solvent concentrates the overall solution. A nice example is the laundry detergent. Some (less) concentrated detergents are less viscous, while highly concentrated detergents are more viscous (greater density). Also, adding more solute to a solvent can lower the freezing point.
Adding more solvent will dilute a solution.
When no more of the solute can be dissolved by the solvent, the solute will collect as a precipitate in the solution, which is now said to be saturated.
We normally think of a solute as a solid that is added to a solvent (e.g., adding table salt to water), but the solute could just as easily exist in another phase. For example, if we add a small amount of ethanol to water, then the ethanol is the solute and the water is the solvent. If we add a smaller amount of water to a larger amount of ethanol, then the water could be the solute!
This statement is incorrect. If you add a solute to a solvent the total volume is not equal to the volume of the solute plus the volume of the solvent. This seems counterintuitive but when adding two different compounds together these compounds may stack together better or worse than they would separately. This can be seen very readily when mixing pure ethanol and water. It also results in the fact that using normal distillation methods you cannot get ethanol more pure than 95%. Hope that helps
The solution is said to be unsaturated. If the max amount is dissolved at a given temperature, then the solution is saturated.
If more solute is added to the solution and the solute remains undissolved, then you know that solution is saturated.
The solubility of a solvent increases as its temperature increases. Supersaturation is achieved by increasing the solubility of a solvent through temperature increase, saturating it with a solute, then lowering its temperature again, resulting in a solution that has more solute than it normally would at that temperature.
You add more solvent.
Adding solvent will make a solution more diluted. Think of it this way. Take water (solvent) and dissolve salt into it (solute). In order to dilute or increase the ratio of solvent to solute, you would add more water.
You can eitheradd more solvent,allow some solvent to evaporate,add more solute,allow the solute to precipitate and remove some.
1) increase the solvent's temperature 2) add more solvent 3) stir (have the solvent and solute meet together more instead of letting the solute rest at the bottom of the solvent)
You'll need to remove solvent somehow; most likely by evaporation if the solvent has a higher vapor pressure than the solute.
To make a solution you add a solute to a solvent.
Solution
When you add sugar (solute) into the tea (solvent) it mixes together to make a solution (when a solute/sugar, mixes into a solvent/tea.)The particles in the tea will start breaking up the sugar molecules. This is called dissolving, that is when a solute will mixes and disappear into a solvent.
To increase the concentration of a solution, you can decrease the amount of solvent by boiling off, or by evaporation, or you can simply add more solute. Conversely, to decrease the concentration, you can add more solvent.
Increase the amount of solvent.
Adding more solute to a solution will increase its concentration. Adding more solvent will only dilute it. Think of salt water. The salt is the solute, and water is the solvent. Add salt and it becomes a more concentrated solution. Add more water, and it is more dilute. Simple and easy once you think it through.
If you add any more solute to the solvent it won't dissolve.