A sweet shop owner
prepared a saturated solution
of sugar in boiling water and
after cooling he observed
sugar deposition at the
bottom of the container. Can
you guess what could have
happened?
Dear student,
When the shop owner prepared a saturated solution of sugar in boiling water, due to heat more solute particles get dissolved in water and the solution will not be saturated it will be a supersaturated solution. After some time, when the temperature of the solution lowers down those solute particles are additionally dissolved in the solution, converted into precipitate, and settles down in the bottom.
A solution that can hold no more of the solute at a particular temperature is said to be a saturated solution at that temperature.
Supersaturated means that something holds more solute than it should at a given temperature. One way to do this is to saturate a solution, then heat it up. Then you add more solute, and that will go close to saturating the solution again. When you cool it back down to the original temperature, the solute will remain in the solution. In this way, some more solute is added to the saturated solution by changing temperature.
Regards
When the shop owner prepared a saturated solution of sugar in boiling water, due to heat more solute particles get dissolved in water and the solution will not be saturated it will be a supersaturated solution. After some time, when the temperature of the solution lowers down those solute particles are additionally dissolved in the solution, converted into precipitate, and settles down in the bottom.
A solution that can hold no more of the solute at a particular temperature is said to be a saturated solution at that temperature.
Supersaturated means that something holds more solute than it should at a given temperature. One way to do this is to saturate a solution, then heat it up. Then you add more solute, and that will go close to saturating the solution again. When you cool it back down to the original temperature, the solute will remain in the solution. In this way, some more solute is added to the saturated solution by changing temperature.
Regards