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When a compound cannot be solvent to any significant extent it is called what?
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Why hydration is always called solvation but solvation is not always called hydration?
It depends on what the solvent is. If it is water, then it is called hydration. If the solvent is not water, then it cannot be called hydration.
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 are the Differences between polar solvent and non polar solvent?
A polar solvent is a compound which has dipole moments which allow compounds which are able to form ion-dipole moments to dissolve. Non-polar solvent refers to compounds which have no polarity,(no dipole moments, or that the polarity is cancelled out), such as CCl4.
Why should water not be described as a universal solvent?
because there are 2 totally different types of molecules, you have the polar and apolar molecules. the polar molecules will only dissolve in a polar solvent, the apolar moleculesin a apolar solvent. this is the reason why oil doesn't mix with water. oil is apolar and water polar
Why alkali metals cannot be used in voltaic cells?
Alkali and Alkaline earth metals cannot be used in voltaic cells based on water as the solvent because of their rapid oxidation by that solvent.
Can kerosine dissolved?
Kerosene is a non polar solvent (or non ionic solvent) and cannot dissolve an ionic compound such as salt.
What solvent is called universal solvent?
Water is the substance that is often called the "universal solvent". However, in actuality, nonpolar substances cannot be dissolved in water.
Why hydration is always called solvation but solvation is not always called hydration?
It depends on what the solvent is. If it is water, then it is called hydration. If the solvent is not water, then it cannot be called hydration.
What is solute and solvent of water?
Water is a single compound so it cannot be a solute and solvent at the same time.If you have a drop of alcohol in a bucket of water then water is the solvent, but if you have a drop of water in a bucket of alcohol then water is the solute.
What is it called when a solvent cannot dissolve any more solute?
saturated.
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
Matter that is uniform throughout and cannot be separated into other substances by physical means is called?
A compound is a molecule that fits this description. Water is such a compound and is a good example.
Are you solvent?
A solvent is a substance results in a solution when it dissolves a solute. Therefore, humans are not and cannot be solvent.
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.
Why are Rf values always less than 1?
Rf values are distance of substance from origin divided by distance of solvent front from origin. As the substance travels with the solvent, the solvent will always have a greater or equal value to the distance travelled by substance. This means the highest value of Rf is 1.
Which molecule is classified as the universal solvent?
Water (H2O) is largely used as a solvent; but an universal solvent cannot exist.
What does solvent mean science?
A solvent is a liquid that dissolves some kind of solid.A liquid or a gas which dissolves solid, liquid and gas in it to form a solution is called a solvent.Water is the most commonly used solvent. The solids, liquids and gases which are dissolved in solvent are called solutes. In a sugar water solution, water is solvent and sugar is solute. When a drop of ink is added to water, then ink is solute and water is solvent in. The solutions in which solvents cannot dissolve more solute are called saturated solutions.
