Water I

CHEMISTRY SSS2 First Term

WEEK 9

Water

Performance objectives

Students should be able to:

1. Define solvent, solute, and solution
2. Define solubility
3. List and explain factors that affect solubility

Content

Water

This is composed of chemical elements hydrogen and oxygen and existing in gaseous, liquid, and solid states. It is one of the most plentiful and essential compounds. A tasteless and odorless liquid at room temperature, it has the important ability to dissolve many other substances. Indeed, the versatility of water as a solvent is essential to live organisms. Life is believed to have originated in the aqueous solutions of the world’s oceans, and living organisms depend on aqueous solutions, such as blood and digestive juices, for biological processes. In…