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Factors Affecting Salt Dissolution

The document discusses the variables affecting the dissolution of salt in water, emphasizing the importance of temperature, amount of salt, and volume of solvent. It highlights the need to keep the volume of water constant to ensure accurate results when measuring solubility at different temperatures. Additionally, it defines independent, dependent, and control variables in the context of the investigation.

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Factors Affecting Salt Dissolution

The document discusses the variables affecting the dissolution of salt in water, emphasizing the importance of temperature, amount of salt, and volume of solvent. It highlights the need to keep the volume of water constant to ensure accurate results when measuring solubility at different temperatures. Additionally, it defines independent, dependent, and control variables in the context of the investigation.

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VARIABLES

Different factors or things that could affect


(change) the result of an investigation or
experiment.
DISSOLVING SALT IN WATER-FACTORS THAT
COULD AFFECT THE RESULT
• TEMPERATURE OF THE SOLVENT:
Salt will dissolve faster in hot water than in cold water.
Hotter the water, faster is the dissolving of salt.
• AMOUNT OF SALT:
More the amount of salt we use, less is the rate of dissolution.
At higher temperatures, we can dissolve more salt.
• VOLUME OF THE SOLVENT
More the amount of water, more is the rate of dissolution.
1. The students have identified the following variables: the volume of water
used, the temperature of the water and the number of spatulas of the
solute used.

2. If we use different amounts of water, we won’t know whether the change


in results is because of the temperature or just because we used more or
less water.
THE VOLUME OF WATER
IT IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP THE VOLUME OF
WATER SAME.
• This is to make sure that we get accurate results.
• Since we are measuring the solubility at different
temperatures, we have to keep the volume of water the
same, otherwise we will not get correct measurements that
cannot be compared.
MEASURING THE SOLUBILITY OF SALT IN 50
cm3 AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES

• We measure the maximum number of spatulas (spoons) of salts that


can be dissolved in 50 cm' of water at different temperatures ranging
from 20 to 80°C.
• Here, the variable we change is the temperature of water.
• The variable we measure is the number of spatulas of salt that can
dissolve in water at different temperatures (or solubility).
• The solubility of salt in water will increase with increase in
temperature.
• This variable is therefore dependent on temperature.
• The volume of water is kept the same for each temperature. It is kept
constant.
VARIABLES

•The variable that you change is called the independent


variable (temperature in this case)
•The variable that we measure is called the dependent
variable (in this case, the solubility)
•The variable that we keep the same is called the
control variable (in this case the volume of water)
PLOTTING A GRAPH FOR THE INVESTIGATION

•Horizontal axis: independent variable (temperature)


•Vertical variable: dependent variable (solubility)
temperature

The volume of water,


Another control variable is the size of the spatula and how full
each spatula is. the number of spatulas of solute

The number of spatulas of solute

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