A saturated solution is made when you have added so much solute that no more dissolves. The amount of solute needed to make a saturated solution will change with the temperature of the solution.
If more solute is added to the solution and the solute remains undissolved, then you know that solution is saturated.
The addition of solute to a solvent concentrates the overall solution. A nice example is the laundry detergent. Some (less) concentrated detergents are less viscous, while highly concentrated detergents are more viscous (greater density). Also, adding more solute to a solvent can lower the freezing point.
I know this because our class just did a lab and I wrote a 15 page paper on this. Essentially, when you make a supersaturated solution, you heat a saturated solution up until it is realls UNsaturated, and then you add more solute to bring the heated solution CLOSE, but not TO, saturation. Then you cool the solution down gently, without agitating it, and if you're lucky, none of the solute will precipitate, making the solution, of course, supersaturated. Now, the balance between these particles is really frail. So if you add more solute to the supersat. solution, all of the originally dissolved solid(only the solid that you put in the hot solution) will crystallize. Basically, one moment there will be a tiny crystal in a test tube full of liquid, and the next moment the test tube will be half full with crystals. sooo....yeah
We normally think of a solute as a solid that is added to a solvent (e.g., adding table salt to water), but the solute could just as easily exist in another phase. For example, if we add a small amount of ethanol to water, then the ethanol is the solute and the water is the solvent. If we add a smaller amount of water to a larger amount of ethanol, then the water could be the solute!
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This is called a supersaturated solution.
When a solution is saturated, it means that it has reached its maximum capacity to dissolve solute at a given temperature. Any extra solute added will not dissolve and will remain as a solid at the bottom of the container.
To make a solution you add a solute to a solvent.
A solution in which no more solute will dissolve is said to be saturated. It is important to realise that it is only saturated at that particular temperature. If you heat it up, usually more solute will dissolve.
If no more solute can dissolve in a solvent, it means the solution is saturated. You can determine this by observing if there is excess solute at the bottom of the container that does not dissolve even with additional stirring. Another way is by conducting a solubility test, where you slowly add more solute to the solvent while stirring until it no longer dissolves.
1) increase the solvent's temperature 2) add more solvent 3) stir (have the solvent and solute meet together more instead of letting the solute rest at the bottom of the solvent)
To conduct a solubility experiment, choose a solvent (e.g. water) and a solute (e.g. sugar). Gradually add solute to the solvent while stirring until no more solute dissolves. Record the amount of solute added and the final solution's appearance to determine the solubility.
I shall explain it to you with the aid of an example. If we take some sugar and add it to water, then the solute is sugar and the solvent is water.The solute is always the substance that is dissolved, and the solvent is the liquid in which the solute dissolves.
I shall explain it to you with the aid of an example. If we take some sugar and add it to water, then the solute is sugar and the solvent is water.The solute is always the substance that is dissolved, and the solvent is the liquid in which the solute dissolves.
To Make a super saturated solution, you must saturate the solution fully by adding to solute to the solvent until no more dissolves. You then heat the solution and add more solute until there is undissolved solid remaining. let the solution cool, you will have a super saturated solution.
Add more solute until no more will dissolve. A saturated solution is one into which no more of the solute can be dissolved into.
When you add sugar (solute) into the tea (solvent) it mixes together to make a solution (when a solute/sugar, mixes into a solvent/tea.)The particles in the tea will start breaking up the sugar molecules. This is called dissolving, that is when a solute will mixes and disappear into a solvent.