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When sugar is dissolved in water which is the solvent?
Questioner:Lily Patel 2023-04-07 08:01:59
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Emily Powell——Studied at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Lives in Los Angeles, CA
As a domain expert in chemistry, I can explain that when a substance dissolves in another, the solvent is the substance that does the dissolving. In the case of sugar being dissolved in water, water is the
solvent because it has the ability to dissolve sugar.
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Noah Campbell——Works at Microsoft, Lives in Redmond. Graduated from University of Washington with a degree in Information Technology.
One of them is called the
solute and the other is the solvent. A
solute is the substance to be
dissolved (
sugar). The solvent is the
one doing the
dissolving (
water). As a rule of thumb, there is usually more solvent than
solute.
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