when u mix sand and salt together and then add water, how come the salt dessolves and the sand doesn't???

Answer 1

The cooking salt is waiting by utilising evaporating sand and water blend under sunlight. Sand will settle at backside whilst the salt keeps to be dissolved in water. whilst the water evaporates, you get salt on ultimate of sand.

Answer 2

Salt is an ionic compound, made of two charged atoms in a lattice structure. Water grips charged atoms very tightly, and pulls the compound apart, since water is a polar molecule.

Sand is a covalent compound. Instead of charged atoms, it's made of neutral atoms that share electrons (a covalent bond). Water doesn't typically dissolve these compounds.

Answer 3

sand has a different chemical structure than salt. Basicly salt can be dessolved because its chemical structure allows it to beak apart from ite other salt molcules

Answer 4

The salt molecules are smaller and can go in between the water molecules easily, that is what dissolve means. The sand molecules are too big to fit in between the water molecules.

Answer 5

b/c salt has this weak bond between its molecules that is broken by water, and sand doesn't.

Answer 6

Because salt particles are soluble whereas sand particles are not.