Do the proportions of solute to solvent vary in heterogeneous mixtures?

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anor277
Sep 11, 2017

They can, because they are simply not related......

Explanation:

We could slurry up an insoluble species up in a solvent, say water. And clearly, we could add more solute to the slurry to make it thicker; or we could add more solvent to the slurry to make it thinner. By definition, the solid, and the solvent are present in two phases, i.e. #"heterogeneous"#.

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