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At 40 degrees is 25g of NaNO3 saturated or unsaturated?

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I think unsaturated

because -

At 55°C, a saturated solution would contain 120 g of solute, NaNO3. (Notice, this point is exactly on the solute's curve). If, for example we mixed in 140 g of NaNO3 instead of 110 g of solute at 55°C, we would create a SUPER saturated solution, because we would be at a point ABOVE the solute's solubility curve.

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