Sugar is not infinitely soluble in water because:?

Question

A - of the strong attractions that occur between sugar molecules
B - of the strong attractions that occur between water molecules

Answer 1

B - water are held together by hydrogen bonds that exists between the unbalanced sharing of electron between the oxygen atom and the hydrogen atom. Thus the oxygen atom turns slightly negative and the hydrogen atom turns slightly positive. The slightly positive hydrogen forms a slight link with the slightly positive oxygen molecules which create water.

But when you dissolve things in water the slight positivity of the hydrogen breaks apart the molecule and forms a link with the molecule instead of the oxygen molecules. However, once enough hydrogen bonds has broken the water start to solidify because all the water molecules bonded with the solute in this case the sugar.

Answer 2

One reason is that atoms and molecules are not infinitesimally small (one over infinity). The other possiblity is that in an infinite amount of surgar the finite amount of water would be imperceptable. The third possibility is that the relative bouancy of surgar is less than water and soluted solids are never permanently soluated. A change in temperature would variate the water/solid or liquid solution mixture distribution, hotter would accept more surgar, cooler would accept less.

Answer 3

neither. water can simply absorb a limited amount of sugar before the excess sugar falls out of solution

Answer 4

My wild guess would be A, because you don't end up with a clump of water at the bottom of a glass of sugar.

Answer 5

B - any given amount of water has only enough room within it to let certain amounts of anything soluble to dissolve into it.

Answer 6

A more than B.

sugar is in air like it can be in water, but it doesn't turn sugar into air.

Answer 7

this isn't just the case with sugar and water....every solution has a saturation point and beyond that point if you add more solute to the solution...dissolution starts.