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Which of the following is true of SOLUBILITY?

A. if something is soluble, it will dissolve in anything

B. water will dissolve everything

C. substances often dissolve in some things and not others

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In general, SOLUBILITY is an ability of a substance to dissolve. In the process of dissolving, the substance which is being dissolved is called a solute and the substance in which the solute is dissolved is called a solvent. A mixture of solute and solvent is called a solution.

To put it in simple words:
When we insert sugar into water it will dissolve. In this process:

sugar is the solute
water is the solvent
One of the characteristics of table sugar is its solubility in water

That was a definition of solubility as it is used in a common language. Now let's see solubility as chemists understand it:
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