Solutions

What is a solution?

Is milk a solution? How about seawater, soup, or orange juice?

Of all the above examples, seawater is the best example of a solution. A solution is something dissolved in another thing. In the seawater, salt is dissolved in water.

A solution contains to parts, a solute and a solvent. The solute is what is being dissolved and the solvent is what the solute is dissolving in.

The solute doesn’t have to be a solid but instead it can be a liquid or a gas. In cola the solute is carbon dioxide and it is dissolved in the drink. In a bleach solution, a capful of bleach is dissolved in the gallon of water.

In chemistry most reactions occur in a solution because it is easier for to reactants to reach each other when floating in a solution.

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