Click on the “Micro” tab. Add sodium chloride (NaCl) to the water. Sodium chloride is salt and sucrose is sugar. Switch the solute to sucrose (C12H22O11) and add this to the same solution. Answer the questions below.
1. What happens to the sodium chloride (salt) when it is added to water?
2. What happens to the sucrose (sugar) when it is added to water?
1. When sodium chloride (salt) is added to water, it dissolves completely and dissociates into its constituent ions, sodium (Na+) and chloride (Cl-). These ions become uniformly distributed throughout the water, resulting in a homogeneous solution.
2. When sucrose (sugar) is added to water, it also dissolves, but it does not dissociate into ions like sodium chloride. Instead, the sucrose molecules remain intact and become evenly dispersed throughout the water, forming a homogeneous solution.