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

• Sugar is %%soluble%% in water

• A brick is %%insoluble%% in water

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