salt will melt and become a milky colloured liquid but you will need a very high boiling poit to achieve this
It depends on the amount of salt and the amount of water. If there is only a little salt, it is probably unsaturated. That means more salt could be dissolved into the solution. If there is quite a bit of salt, it is more than likely saturated. If you add more salt and it just floats to the bottom, it is saturated. Unless it is supersaturated of course. For the solution to be supersaturated, you would have had to boil the water, add salt to the point where it stops dissolving into the boiling hot solution, then let the solution cool down. So, it can be any of the three.
Salt is the solute. Water is the solvent. Salt water is the solution. This solution is sometimes called a saline solution.
A solution is saturated when it is no longer possible to dissolve an additional quantity of solute, at constant temperature.
the amount of salt dissolved in the water
Well if you heat the saturated solution all the solids should dissolve and it should stay a colourless solution with no solids even if it does cool down to the original temperature. At this point it is supersaturated.
From your question it is impossible to tell. A salt-water solution can be unsaturated or saturated depending on how much salt was added.
It depends on the amount of salt and the amount of water. If there is only a little salt, it is probably unsaturated. That means more salt could be dissolved into the solution. If there is quite a bit of salt, it is more than likely saturated. If you add more salt and it just floats to the bottom, it is saturated. Unless it is supersaturated of course. For the solution to be supersaturated, you would have had to boil the water, add salt to the point where it stops dissolving into the boiling hot solution, then let the solution cool down. So, it can be any of the three.
Salt is the solute. Water is the solvent. Salt water is the solution. This solution is sometimes called a saline solution.
You reach the solubility of salt in water when the salt stops dissolving and settles at the bottom, no matter how hard you try to mix it. You can increase solubility by increasing the water temperature.
You can tell when a solution is saturated because if it is, you can see solid particles of the solute in the liquid. These particles do not dissolve even if the solution is stirred vigourously.
If it is solid at room temperature but melts when heated.
The density of a salt water solution compared against the densities of "pure" water and salt provides an approximate value of the ratio of water to salt in the mixture.
A solution refers to any combination of a solvent - water, for example - and a solute - such as sodium. So in salt water, H2O is the solvent which solvates the solute, NaCl. There might be just a little salt in the water, or a lot; in either case it is a solution.A saturated solution is when there is so much of the solute in the solution that no more will dissolve. Imagine adding salt to a glass of water, while stirring continuously. For a long time, the salt would be solvated (dissolved), and disappear. Eventually however, you would reach the saturation point - the water becomes unable to "hold" any more salt, so you would see the salt start to simply collect on the glass bottom.In short, the definition of a saturated solution is one that cannot dissolve any more of the solute. Different solvent and solute combinations all have different saturation points; the solvent may be able to hold a lot of one compound, but perhaps just a little bit of another.
An unsaturated solution can dissolve more solute at a given temperature, whereas a saturated solution contains the maximum amount of solute that can be dissolved in the solvent at that temperature. You can tell the difference by observing whether there is still undissolved solute present in the solution (unsaturated) or if the solution is clear with no solute visible (saturated).
When it is impossible to dissolve any salt further at a given temperature.
20% salt solution is the equivalent of adding 200gr salt in a 800 ml (1000ml -200ml) of water. you now have one liter of a 20% solution.
A solution is saturated when it is no longer possible to dissolve an additional quantity of solute, at constant temperature.