Chapter 14.4 Flashcards
What is a homogeneous mixture called?
Solution
What is the substance dissolved into a solution?
Solute
What is the substance that does the dissolving in a solution?
Solvent
What is the process through which a solute goes to become individual ions after it dissolves?
Dissociates
What is the ability of one substance to dissolve in another substance to form a solution?
Solubility
What is the term for a substance that dissolves easily into a solvent?
Soluble
What is the term for a substance that does not easily dissolve in a solvent?
Insoluble
What is the solid substance formed when a solute “undissolves”?
Precipitate
What is the most important factor that affects solubility?
The nature of the substance
What is the measure of how much solute is dissolved in a given amount of solvent or in a given amount of solution?
Concentration
What is the measure of how many particles of a substance are in a sample?
Mole
What is a measure of solution concentration as moles of solute per some volume of solution?
Amount concentration
What is concentration measured as the moles of solute in a given mass of solvent?
Molality
What is the process of mixing molecules of one substance with another substance by random molecular motion?
Diffusion
What is one-way diffusion through a semi-permeable membrane?
Osmosis