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Lesson: Chapter 3 — Mixtures

Solutes, solvents and solubility 3 of 4

Question 3

What is a saturated solution?

The right answer is the one marked above.

A solution holding as much of that solute as it can at that temperature. Add any more and the extra simply sits at the bottom undissolved.

Grade 10 used saturated of a fatty acid, meaning its carbon chain has no double bonds. That is a different sense of the same word and the two are worth keeping apart.

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