Solubility

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ffect of temperature on solubility

Introduction

The solubility of a substance is defined as its ability to dissolve. There are some factors that alter solubility, such as pressure and the type of solvent, but will temperature affect the solubility of a substance? The investigation problem is to identify whether or not the temperature of a substance affects its ability to dissolve in another substance. Understanding solubility and the processes that undergo is very important, this is due to the important role that it plays in our daily life as well as in the human body. When it comes to oral ingestion, especially in drug delivery, it is profitable since it permits to deliver the medicine throughout the system in order to gain positive and desired responses. Meanwhile it is seen in the human body, it is also manifested while doing household cleaning and in automoviles. That’s why it is essential to recognize and know what is solubility in order to be able to control, manipulate, and enhance it as well as get informed of how life works by depending on water and chemical reactions.

Theoretical Framework

According to Rogers (2000), the solubility of a substance is a property that states the amount that will dissolve in a certain amount of solvent. In other words, solubility refers to a substance’s ability to dissolve. When the substance is dissolving, we refer to the solvent as the substance in which the solute is being dissolved, and to the solute, which is the substance that is being dissolved. Solubility may depend and change according to its temperature, most of the times solubility of liquids and solids tends to increase as the temperature increases. Oppositely to that, as temperature increases, the solubility of the gases dec...

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