Solutions and formation of crystals

Solutions

• Sugar %%dissolves%% in water
• Sugar is a %%solute%%
• Water is a %%solvent%%
• Sugar and water mixed together is a solution

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• Sugar is %%soluble%% in water
• A brick is %%insoluble%% in water

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Saturated solutions

A %%saturated solution%% is a solution which contains as much dissolved solute as possible at a given temperature

Crystallisation

If a hot, saturation is cooled %%slowly%%, large crystals %%formed%%

If a hot, saturation is cooled %%quickly%%, small crystals %%formed%%

\ %%Crystallisation%%: forming of crystals of a compound by cooling a saturated solution