Solutions Around You
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What do the following have in common: the air you breath, the water in the oceans, the fluid in your body, and the brass in a button? Although they may sound unrelated, all of these examples describe mixtures. Very few of the materials you encounter everyday are pure substances. Most are heterog ....
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.... particles in a solution are evenly disturbed, or intermingled informally on a molecular level. A small sample of one part of a solution. The particles in a solution will not separate no matter how long the solution is allowed to stand under constant conditions. In a solution, one substance is usually considered to be dissolved, or broken down in another. The substance that is dissolved is called the solute. The substance that does the dissolving is the solvent. Not every substance diss ....
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