Question

When making lemonade, you accidentally use twice as much lemonade powder as the directions call for. no matter how much you stir, you cannot get all the powder to dissolve. what is true of the solution you made? question 6 options: it is a colloid. it is saturated. it is an emulsion. it is supersaturated.

Answer 1

A solution with excess undissolved lemonade powder after stirring and reaching equilibrium is considered a saturated solution, having reached its solubility limits.

Step-by-step explanation:

When you use twice as much lemonade powder as the directions call for and no more powder will dissolve, the solution you made is saturated. A saturated solution has reached its solubility limits and cannot dissolve any additional solute. If the powder you added exceeds the solubility limit and still remains undissolved, the solution is not supersaturated, because supersaturation is an unstable condition where solute can still temporarily remain dissolved above the solubility limit until a disturbance causes it to precipitate. Since there's excess undissolved powder, your lemonade mixture remains saturated, and cannot dissolve more powder without some changes to the system, like increasing temperature or volume of water.