Question

What will happen if you add salt to water that is "saturated"? *

The salt will react with the water quicker because you're adding more reactants.
The added salt will sink to the bottom.
The salt will dissolve more slowly than usual.
Dissolved salt will precipitate out and sink to the bottom.

Answer 1

The added salt will sink to the bottom

Step-by-step explanation:

A saturated solution is that solution that contains the maximum amount of solute it can dissolve and ,hence, will no longer dissolve any more solute. This question is describing a water solution that is "saturated", this means that water can no longer dissolve any more solute because it has reached the maximum solute limit it can contain.

Hence, adding more solute to a saturated solution like the WATER being described in this question will result in the solute forming a PRECIPITATE at the bottom of the solution. Hence, in this water solution, adding salt to the saturated water solution will result in the added salt sinking to the bottom.