CHEM 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Chloroform, Ethanol, Sodium Chloride

• School: Emory University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 142
• Professor: Mulford Douglas

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A solution is a homogeneous mixture of at least two components: a solvent and a solute. The solvent is the substance that dissolves and the solute is the substance that is dissolved (literally, is loosened apart ). The solvent is whatever you have more of and determines the state of the solution (so a gas dissolved in water would be a liquid solution think about your soda). Solutions can be any phase (a solid can dissolve in another solid brass and steel are examples). Nature favors processes that maximize disorder consider your bedroom if you do not put in some energy to keep it tidy! For a pure material the only option is to have solvent next to solvent particles or solute next to solute particles. In a solution you can have solute next to solute and solvent next to solve and, but you can also have solute next to solvent.