What is a solution?

Chemistry – Research Words

1. Solution- a solution is a homogeneous combination of two or more substances. Solutions have a solute and a solvent. Particles in a solution are not visible to the naked eye. Any two substances that can be rightly mixed can form a solution. For an example, a solid-liquid solution can be sugar in water.

2. Solvent- a solvent is a liquid substance where a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute dissolves in. For an example, in a saline solution, water can be a solvent while the salt is the solute. There are two types of solvents. Organic and inorganic solvent. An inorganic solution does not contain carbon, like water. An organic solvent does contain carbon and oxygen, like alcohols.

3. Solute- a solute is what is dissolved in a solvent. It is usually a solid, liquid, or gas. For an example salt in water. Salt is the solute that is being dissolved. Another example is water vapor. Water vapor is a solute in the air.

4. Solubility- solubility is the uttermost amount of a substance, solute, that can be broken down in another, solvent. The result is called a saturated solution. Solubility contains dynamic equilibrium that includes processes of precipitation and dissolution that are contrasting. Solubility can be affected by chemical species in solution, phases of a solute and solvent, pressure, temperature, polarity, and solute particle size, being in the presence.

5. Dissociation- a dissociation is a chemical reaction where a compound breaks into two or more components. A conventional formula for this chemical reaction is ABA + B. Dissociation chemical reactions are generally reversible. One way to recognize this chemical reaction is when there is one reactant and multiple products. When writing a dissociation reaction, charges are placed above the ion symbols and make the equation balance for both the charge and the mass.

6. Precipitate- precipitate is when an insoluble compound is made by changing the temperature or bonding two salts to affect the solubility of the compound. Also, when a precipitate reaction happens a solid is formed and a name given to that solid is usually called “precipitate”. Precipitate reactions are used to purify, remove, or recover salts. They are also used to make pigments. An example of precipitation is mixing silver nitrate and sodium chlorine in water which will result in silver chlorine to precipitate out of solution as a solid. The precipitate is silver chlorine.

7. Spectator Ion- a spectator ion are ions that are in a solution but aren’t included in what the solution’s chemical reaction are doing. They come from come from compounds that freely dissolve in water but don’t react with it. Some ions that were first reactants may come together to form a new compound. The other ions that don’t participate in the chemical reaction are called spectator ions. They are in the solution but only watch the other ions form new bonds to make the new material. Examples of a substance that acts as a spectator ion is alkali metals and halogen gases. They provide spectator ions.

8. Double replacement- Double replacement is a chemical reaction where two reactant ionic compounds switch ions to produce two new product compounds with similar ions. Another word for double replacement reaction is double displacement reaction, or metathesis reactions. There are three parts to a metathesis reaction: gas formation, neutralization, and precipitation. An example of this reaction is silver trading it nitrite ion for the sodium chloride ion.

9. Single replacement- single replacement is one of the main types of chemical reaction. It is where one reactant switches for one ion of a second reactant. An example of a single replacement reaction is the reaction between zinc metal and hydrochloric acid producing zinc chloride and hydrogen gas. Single displacements are easy to recognize when one of the reactants is an element and the other is a compound. To predict when this reaction is going to occur, compare it with the reactivity of an element using an activity series table.

10. Reducing agent- a reducing agent, also known as reductant, misplaces electrons and is oxidized in chemical reactions. They are usually in the lowest oxidation states. In a redox reaction the reducing agent loses an electron which causes it to be oxidized. Reducing agents can be used to purify water, bleach fabrics, and store energy like batteries. Two examples of reducing agents are earth metals and sulfite compounds.

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