What is a Solution?

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms and concepts about solutions, solutes, solvents, and the dissolving process from the lecture notes.

Solute

The substance that dissolves.

Solvent

The substance that it dissolves into.

Solution

A mixture, such as the colourless mixture of sugar and water formed when sugar dissolves in water.

Sugar crystal

A structure that is visible because it is made of lots of groups of vibrating particles that are tightly packed together.

Dissolving

The process where water particles vibrate and slide past one another, bumping into vibrating sugar particles to separate them until they are no longer in groups and spread out among the water particles.