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Take a cup of water, add sugar, and stir. if the resulting solution contains sugar crystals that do not dissolve, the solution is said to be

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When a solvent has as much of the dilute dissolved in it as possible, then it is saturated.

If you were to heat the water, its capacity would increase and would then be super-saturated because it has more dissolved in it than possible as room temp.

Since there is no heating being done, the water is just saturated.

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