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You keep adding sugar to a cold cup of coffee and stirring the coffee. Finally, solid sugar remains on the bottom of the cup. Explain why no more sugar dissolves.
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Solubility is the maximum amount of a solute that can be dissolved in a solvent at a given temperature and pressure. In this case, the solute is sugar and the solvent is coffee. Show more…
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