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]

[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...

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"...

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

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.

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...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Tutorial defines osmosis and the difference between osmosis and diffusion. Students will learn how to distinguish solute from solvent and solution and the hypotonic,...

Through interactive puzzles, informational text and video clips, students will investigate the properties of solutions.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will define a solution and describe the parts of a solution. They will describe how an aqueous solution is formed from both...

This comprehensive interactive tutorial continues to explore the forensic science field. Learn how organic materials of evidence are analyzed and what the various types of chromatography are, especially why they are so important to this...

To increase students' awareness of possible invisible pollutants in drinking water sources, students perform an exciting lab requiring them to think about how solutions and mixtures exist even in unsuspecting places such as ink. They use...

Explore what happens when one substance dissolves into another. Run the simulations and see if you can predict the results.

This chemistry course article, "Why does the solubility of gases usually increase as temperature goes down?," provides text and related links on the effects of temperature and pressure on the solubility of gases.

Learn how molarity and molality differ. The molality of a solution is equal to the moles of solute divided by the mass of solvent in kilograms, while the molarity of a solution is equal to the moles of solute divided by the volume of...

This site provides a discussion of the physical properties of water. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.

In this lab, students will demonstrate observation skills as they design an experiment to separate colors of various water-based pens in order to learn about mixtures and solutions. Students will determine a variable to test and complete...