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sugar is more soluble in hot tea (water) than cold tea (water). So if you put the same amount of sugar into the same amount of water you use less of a percentage of the solubility limit for the hot water and it dissolves faster.

Making solutions can generate or release heat. I've never noticed a change in the solution volume when adding water to sugar, so I will assume the process isn't very endothermic or exothermic.

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The added heat means the kinetic energy is higher. Higher kinetic energy means the particles are moving faster, because kinetic energy is energy in motion. So, collisions between the solvent particles (tea) and solute particles (sugar) happen more often, causing dissolving to happen at a higher rate.

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As you increase temperature, solids move towards becoming liquid, that is, it becomes more favorable for them to go into the liquid phase. That's pretty much what is going on when a solute dissolves into a solvent, as the temperature increases, it becomes more favorable for more of it to go into the liquid phase (as a solute). Conversely when you drop the temperature - such as you would in ice tea - it becomes less favorable for a solid to dissolve; there is less driving force from a thermodynamic standpoint. The same phenomena explains why as you heat up a liquid you get LESS gas dissolved into it. You may have noticed that when you put a pot on to boil you see lots of little bubbles forming on the surface of the pot long before it starts to boil. This is the dissolved air coming out of solution because as the temperature increases, it moves to being less favorable to be in the liquid and more favorable to being a gas.

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The water molecules move faster in hot tea. The faster they move, the harder they hit the sugar crystals. The harder they hit, the more sugar molecules are knocked loose.

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because somthing that is hot idk i just no for a fact that sugar dissolves faster in sumthng that s hot not coled

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Does sugar dissolve faster in hot tea than in iced tea?

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