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Why would dissolving salt in water be considered physical change?
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∙ 9y ago
This is a physical change.
This is a an interesting example - it is considered to be physical because the salt can be recovered through evaporation. However the salt in solution is separated into ions which are solvated by water molecules- this could be argued as a chemical change.- as there are albeit weak interactions between the water and the ions.
Some salts dissolve and hydrolysis occurs, a "genuine" chemical reaction with water. An example is sodium acetate, (a salt of a weak acid), this dissolves to give a basic solution- this would be a chemical change. This is reversible - you can evaporate the water and get the salt back.
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