✭ Question -:
Which of the following is a solution?
A) milk
B) salt water
C) chlorine
D) muddy water
✭ Explanation -:
What is a solvent ?
A liquid that can dissolved in a solution.
What is a solute ?
A substance that is dissolved in a solution.
What is a solution ?
A solution is a homogeneous mixture of one or more solutes dissolved in a solvent.
Opition a)
Milk is not a solution. Milk is a mixture because milk has more than one phase suspended in it. Milk is a mixture of water, lipids, fats, proteins, and carbohydrates, as well as other substances.
Opition a is not the correct answer
Opition b)
Salt water is a solution. It is a solution because salt particles completely dissolve in water.
Opition b is the correct answer
Opition c)
Chlorine gas is an element. An element is a pure substance that consists of only one type of particle.
Opition d)
Muddy water is not a solution.It is a mixture. Solid dust and liquid have been mixed but the two but the two are not mixed on a molecular scale to form one state.
Opition d is not the correct answer
- Hence Opition b) is a solution.