An article investigating why water makes a good solvent. Also, understand what molecules dissolve best in water.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of solute and solvent and examples. Water as a solvent and how ionic and covalent solutes dissolve in water.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers solutes and solvents.

This video lesson explains how water is the universal solvent. [1:10]

Discusses the importance of solvent extraction, provides examples, looks at the importance of appropriate solvent selection, describes the conditions needed for extraction, and explains some of the methods used.

[Free Registration/Login Required] While paying attention to the charges, move the salt ions and water molecules around to simulate how salt ions are dissolved in water.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will list examples of solutions made from different solute-solvent combinations and explain three factors that affect the...

Students identify and control variables to design an experiment to see whether the temperature of a solvent affects the speed at which a solute dissolves.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students will study water's ability to act as a solvent.

Learn the definitions of a solution, solute, and solvent. Understand how molarity is used to quantify the concentration of solute, and comcalculations related to molarity.

Learners can use this web-based activity to study solutions, as far as the intermolecular attractive forces that allow or do not allow a solvent to dissolve in a solute. Also discussed includes the solubility rule "like dissolves like"...

Article offers a comparison between a solution, a solute, and a solution and provides examples.

Discussion of water as a solvent. Includes material on hydrogen bonds, hydration, hydrophobic effect, acids, basses, and pH.

Learn how the extent to which one substance dissolves in another depends on the nature of both the solute and the solvent.

Students will use the terms solute and solvent in describing a solution. They will sketch a solution at the particle level and design and conduct an experiment to determine the factors (e.g., agitation, particle size, temperature)...

Young scholars will be able to classify a mixture as homogeneous or heterogeneous. Students will be able to create a solution. Young scholars will be able to identify the solute. Students will be able to identify the solvent. Young...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How solutes affect solvents, the freezing point depression and boiling point elevation.

Understand how temperature, pressure, and the presence of other solutes affect the solubility of solutes in solvents.

Solutions and their properties, solutions,concentration, etc.

This site from the University of Frostburg provides an explanation of the process by which nonpolar molecules dissolve in water.

Describes early uses of chloroform as an anesthetic and the dangers its use posed. Discusses its use as a solvent and some limited uses in dentistry and veterinary medicine. Chloroform was once used in some common products but is now...

A knowledge map with clickable links related to polar solutes.

A knowledge map with clickable links related to nonpolar solutes.

Particulate level simulations that show only solute particles are convenient, since they focus student attention on the molecules of most interest. However, such solute molecules move in a Brownian manner. This simulation helps students...