He defines the terms solute, solvent and solution. By dissolving sugar into cups of tea, Jon demonstrates that solutions can become saturated. When one of the cups is then cooled down, some of the ...

Solutions are simply one thing dissolved in another. You need a solute - that's the substance being dissolved - and a solvent - that's the substance that does the dissolving. Salt and sugar are ...

It shows that the dominant element in a solution—the solvent, not the solute—is the material that crystallizes. This finding, ...

P. E. Maslen, J. Faeder and R. Parson, "An Effective Hamiltonian for an Electronically Excited Solute in a Polarizable Molecular Solvent", Molecular Physics, 94, 693, 1998. J. Faeder and R. Parson, ...