Science Vocabulary Chapter 23
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- Solution
- a mixture that has the same composition, color, density, and even taste throughout
- Solute
- the substance being dissolved
- Solvent
- the substance doing the dissolving
- Alloys
- solid solutions
- Polar
- has a positive area and a negative area
- Solubility
- the maximum amount of a solute that can be dissolved in a given amount of solvent at a given temperature
- Saturated solution
- a solution that contains all the solute it can hold at a given temperature
- Unsaturated solution
- any solution that can dissolve more solute at a given temperature
- Supersaturated solution
- a solution that contains more solute than a saturated one at the same temperature
- Electrolytes
- the compounds that produce solutions of ions that conduct electricty in water
- Nonelectrolytes
- Substances that form no ions in water and cannot conduct electricity
- Ionization
- the process of forming ions
- Dissociation
- the process in which an ionic solid seperates into its positive and negative ions