What are solutions?

A solution is like when you mix two things together and they become one happy group that can’t be told apart.

Imagine you have a cup of water, clear and simple. Now, if you add some sugar and stir it really well, the sugar disappears into the water. That’s a solution! The sugar isn't gone; it's just mixed in so well that you can't see it anymore.

A solution has two parts:

• The thing that is being mixed in, like the sugar, called the solute.
• The thing that does the mixing, like the water, called the solvent.

It’s just like when you mix chocolate syrup into milk. At first, you can see the syrup, but after a while, it all blends together so well that it looks like one drink, and that’s your solution!

Sometimes, you can even taste the difference, but you still don’t see it, just like how you know there's sugar in your water, even if you can't see it.