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Water is the solvent, salt is the solute.
The water rips the NaCL apart into Na+ and Cl- ions. The Na+ is then surrounded by a shell of water atoms with the "O" end pointed towars the Na+ as that end of water is negative and similarly the Cl- are surrounded by the positive H ends of the water.
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What is a solvent solution?
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.
When salt dissolves in water what is the solute and solvent?
When salt dissolves in water, the salt is the solute, and the solvent is the water. Whenever you have a solution, the substance that is being dissolved is the solute, the substance that it is being dissolved in is the solvent.
What do the terms solute and solvent mean?
A solute dissolves in a solvent. For example, salt dissolves in water.
What is salt dissolves in water?
Brine.In your example, the salt is the solute while the water is the solvent.
When salt is dissolved in water what is the water?
The salt is the solute and the water is the solvent. Water is the solvent because it is what dissolves the solid salt into the solution. The water molecules pull apart the crystal structure of salt and surround the salt ions.
Use the terms solvent and solute to describe how to prepare a salt solution?
To prepare a salt solution, dissolve the salt (solute) in water (solvent). The salt will fully dissolve in the water, creating a homogenous solution. The resulting liquid is now a salt solution, where the water is the solvent and the salt is the solute.
In salt water what is the solvent and what is the solute?
When salt dissolves in water, the salt is the solute, and the solvent is the water. Whenever you have a solution, the substance that is being dissolved is the solute, the substance that it is being dissolved in is the solvent.
What is solute and solvent of an salt solution?
In a salt solution, the salt is the solute and the substance in which the salt dissolves is the solvent. For example, in a saltwater solution, salt (sodium chloride) is the solute and water is the solvent.
When a solid dissolves in water is the solid called a solute?
Yes: Solvent is the thing it dissolves into (eg. water) Solute is the thing being dissolved (eg. salt) Solution is what is create (the salt dissolved in water makes a salt solution)
What is a substance that dissolves in a solvent to form a solution?
its called a solute. so in the water-salt mix, the water is thesolvent n the salt is the solute. -PJ
In salt water the salt is the and the water is the?
Salt is the solute (the substance being dissolved) and water is the solvent (the substance doing the dissolving.
What melts the solvent or solute?
Dissolving is not the same thing as melting. When you dissolve salt in water, for example, neither the salt nor the water melts. In the example of salt in water, salt is the solute and water is the solvent. The salt (which is the solute) is what dissolves (but does not melt).
