Chemistry - CH 15: Solutions

Ms. Maranell (United States of America)
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  1. Brownian motion
    the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid
  2. colloid
    a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension
  3. concentration
    the strength of a solution
  4. heat of solution
    the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent
  5. Henry's law
    law formulated by the English chemist William Henry
  6. immiscible
    (chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing
  7. insoluble
    incapable of being dissolved
  8. miscible
    capable of being mixed, in chemistry
  9. molality
    concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent
  10. molarity
    concentration measured by molecular weight of a substance
  11. osmosis
    diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane
  12. osmotic pressure
    (physical chemistry) the pressure exerted by a solution necessary to prevent osmosis into that solution when it is separated from the pure solvent by a semipermeable membrane
  13. saturated
    unable to dissolve still more of a substance
  14. solubility
    the quality of being easily dissolved in liquid
  15. soluble
    capable of being dissolved in some solvent
  16. solvation
    a chemical process in which solvent molecules and molecules or ions of the solute combine to form a compound
  17. supersaturated
    being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium
  18. suspension
    a mixture in which fine particles are supported by buoyancy
  19. Tyndall effect
    the phenomenon in which light is scattered by very small particles in its path; it makes a beam of light visible; the scattered light is mainly blue
  20. unsaturated
    not saturated
Created on Mon Apr 29 16:37:19 EDT 2013 (updated Mon Apr 29 16:37:50 EDT 2013)

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