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Activity 1.3
What is the evidence that a Solution is saturated?

I. Your Task:
1. Prepare and compare saturated and unsaturated solution.
2. Cite evidences that a solution is saturated and unsaturated.

II. Materials:
10 teaspoon sugar 1 small clear, transparent glasses
water stirrer

1. Put ½ cup of water in a plastic glass. Add ½ teaspoon of sugar and stir.
Q1. What is the appearance of the solution?
Write your observations.
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2. To the sugar solution in step 1, add ½ teaspoon sugar, a small portion at a time and
stir the solution to dissolve the sugar. At this point, you have added 1 teaspoon sugar.
3. Add ½ teaspoon of sugar to the sugar solution in step 2 and stir the solution. At this
point, you have added 1 and ½ teaspoon of sugar.
4. Continue adding ½ teaspoon sugar to the same cup until the added sugar no longer
dissolves.
Q2. How many teaspoon of sugar have you added until the sugar no longer dissolves?
_____________ teaspoons
Q3. So, how many teaspoons of sugar dissolved completely in ½ cup of water?

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Q4. How do you differentiate a saturated solution from unsaturated solution?

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