Q.What is solubility of a compound ?
Step 1. When a solid solute is added to a solvent, it dissolves until the solvent can hold no more of it under the given conditions.
Step 2. The maximum amount that can dissolve, at a specified temperature, in a specified quantity of solvent (commonly 100 mL or 1 L) is called the solubility of that substance in that solvent.
Step 3. Solubility is usually expressed in grams of solute per unit volume of solution, but this chapter (section 3.9.2) also defines molar solubility -- the number of moles of solute that dissolve to give one litre of saturated solution -- which is the form solubility-product calculations use directly.
Step 4. Solubility depends on temperature (and, for gases, on pressure) and varies enormously between substances -- from essentially fully soluble salts to the sparingly soluble salts this chapter's solubility-product section focuses on.
Solubility is the maximum amount of solute (in grams, or as molar solubility in mol/L) that dissolves in a fixed amount of solvent at a given temperature to produce a saturated solution.
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