Meaning & use
solute
A substance that dissolves in a liquid to form a solution, as salt dissolves in water.
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In salt water, the salt is the solute and the water is the solvent.
The chemist measured how much solute the liquid could hold before it stopped dissolving.
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Solute and solvent are opposite parts of a solution: the solute is dissolved, and the solvent does the dissolving.
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