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Year 519 · Dissolving and Solutions
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Year 5 · third unit

Dissolving and Solutions

Sugar dissolves in water and cannot be seen. Has it gone? The balance knows the answer.

A child stirring sugar water

I put sugar in water and stirred

A board to adjust

Where has the sugar gone? Drag the bag in and stir, and watch the reading on the balance.

A cup of water and a bag of sugar on a balance

If you keep adding salt, will it all dissolve?

A board to adjust

Add one spoonful at a time. Change the temperature of the water too, and try it with sugar or boric acid.

Salt left undissolved at the bottom of a cup

Which cup of sugar water is stronger?

A board to adjust

Put different amounts of sugar in two cups and float a quail's egg in each.

Quail's eggs floating at different heights in two cups of sugar water

From here the amount that dissolves becomes a graph

What comes next in middle school · the characteristics of substances

A different line for each substance

It is the salt you dissolved above. Mark how much dissolves at each temperature, join the points, and you have a line. Each substance has a different line, so the line is the substance's name tag.

Solubility curves of three substances drawn on dark paper

The salt from above

A board to adjust

This time, how much dissolves at each temperature, as a graph. The lines for sugar and boric acid are there too.

20℃temperature
—amount dissolving in 100 g of water

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