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Uses for water: in chemistry, water is the universal solvent (if you want what alchemists were looking for, aqua regia is the closest that's ever been made, but water is the main one). As far as I know, every known chemical or material will dissolve in water to an extent (which means in many cases it's something like a picogram (or some other absurdly small unit of mass) of solute per litre of water). Chemicals considered "insoluble" in water do dissolve, just in near-trivial amounts.

Uses for solutions: pretty much anything, depending on what the solution is. I think your real question is "what is a solution?"

I'll start from the very basics - there are 5 basic classifications of chemical materials

Of these, two are pure: Elements and Compounds. Elements contain only one type of atom (only one element), which means every atom has the same number of protons (Electron and neutron counts can change, but that's significantly beyond the scope of these definitions). Compounds consist of more than one type of atom chemically bonded together. Salt is the classic example, being a combination of sodium and chlorine (and far less dangerous than either element, as sodium essentially explodes if it touches water and chlorine is a very well known poisonous gas (World War 1 history))

The other three classifications are the mixtures, which are comprised of combinations of elements and or compounds with no chemical bonds connecting them. Of these, mechanical mixtures are the simplest - a collection of multiple things simply mixed together. Imagine the result of pouring the contents of salt and pepper shakers into a pile and stirring them together. There's nothing holding the salt to the pepper (aside from the fact that you have better things to do than separate the salt and pepper bits from each other).

Suspensions are usually a mixture of solid and liquid. Orange Juice is a good example, if you like the pulp. Pulp is solid bits of orange (which itself is an extremely complex mixture, but again, beyond the scope of these definitions), and it floats in the juice. They're still separable, but it's a lot harder now - you need to filter it or use a centrifuge and decanting (pouring the water off a sunken solid) to get it out.

Finally, there are solutions, which are a mixture of a solute and solvent. The solvent is generally the stuff there is more of, or water, if it's there at all. The solute is the other stuff. The two components can only be separated through boiling the solvent and subsequently cooling it (there's a specific term, but it escapes me at the moment).

How solutions are used depends on the components. Many are drinks (sodas, juices, beer, wine, spirits, etc). Urine is a solution used as a method of removing waste products from the body. Vinegar is a common cooking ingredient. Acids and bases are all solutions.

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