solubility
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Solubility is the ability of a substance to dissolve into another substance, like salt dissolving in water, and it can change depending on conditions like temperature. It matters because understanding how much of a substance can dissolve helps predict when crystals will form or when solutions will become saturated.
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- Quantification of solubility
- Per quantity of solvent
- Per quantity of solution
- Liquid and gaseous solutes
- Conversion of solubility values
- Qualifiers used to describe extent of solubility
- Molecular view
- Factors affecting solubility
- Temperature
- Pressure
- Solubility of gases
- Polarity
- Rate of dissolution
- Theories of solubility
- Solubility product
- Other theories
- Applications
- Differential solubility
- Solubility of ionic compounds in water
- Solubility of organic compounds
- Solid solution
- Incongruent dissolution
- Solubility prediction
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
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In chemistry, solubility is the ability of a substance, the solute, to form a solution with another substance, the solvent. Insolubility is the opposite property, the inability of the solute to form such a solution.