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1.0 LEARNING OBJECTIVE : 5.4 SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY

2.0 AIM : To study the effect of different volumes of water on the rate of dissolving
salt.
3.0 VARIABLES : a) Manipulated : Volume of water
b) Responding
: Time taken to dissolve the salt
c) Fixed/Constant : Mass of salt/ temperature of water/
rate of stirring/ type of salt
4.0 APPARATUS/MATERIALS : Beam balance, stopwatch, 3 beakers (250 ml),
fine salt, glass rod, measuring cylinder.
5.0 PROCEDURE :
1) Beaker A is filled with 50 ml of water, beaker B is filled with 100 ml of water
and beaker C is filled with 200 ml of water.
2) Water is at room temperature.
3) 10 g of salt is weighed with a beam balance and added to each beaker.
4) The solution in each beaker is stirred at the same rate until all the salt
dissolved completely.
5) Time taken for salt to dissolve is recorded for each beaker.

BEAKER A
BEAKER B
Fine
salt

Distilled
water
(50 cm3)

Distilled
water
(100 cm3)

Fine
salt

BEAKER C

Distilled
water
(200 cm3)

Fine
salt

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6.0 OBSERVATION :
Table of results:
Mass of salt = 10 gram
Beaker
A
B

50
100
150
200

6.1

Volume of water
(ml)

Time taken to dissolve

salt
(second)
120
60
P
45

C10:3

The salt grains cannot be seen anymore when all the salt is
completely dissolved

6.2 (i) 200 ml of water in Beaker C dissolves salt first

(ii) 50 ml of water in Beaker A dissolves salt last.

140

120

Time raken to dissolve salt (s)

100

80

60

40

20

0
0

50

100

150

Volume of water (ml)

200

250

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7.0 DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS:

7.1 (i) 200 ml of water in Beaker C dissolves salt the fastest because
it has the largest volume of water
(ii) 50 ml of water in Beaker A dissolves salt the slowest because it
It has the lowest volume of water.
7.2

Salt dissolves in water to form salt solution. In word equation:

SALT
SOLUTE

SALT SOLUTION

WATER
SOLVENT

7.3 The larger the volume of water, the less time taken to dissolve salt /
As the volume of water increases, the time taken to dissolve salt decreases

7.4 (i) Rate of dissolving salt is the time taken to dissolve (10 g) salt
completely in water at a given temperature
(i) depends on volume of water
(ii) reading of stop watch
7.5 If more than 200 ml of water is used, the time taken to dissolve salt
will be shorter
7.6 Based on the graph, the time taken to dissolve salt in 150 ml of
water is 50 seconds
8.0 CONCLUSION :
8.1 Time taken to dissolve salt depends on the volume of water /
Time taken to dissolve salt is affected by the volume of water