What is the difference between a mixture and a solution?

Is salt water a mixture or a solution?

Solution contain only solute and solvent,

but mixture contain pure substances

also

mixture

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Homogeneus. Heterogeneus

(Solution)

Solution is a part of mixture

and salty water is solution,

because salt is solute and water is solvent

Water dissolve salt

Note: water is the most common solvent among liquid solutions

Salt and water is both a solution and a mixture. Salt, the solute, can be dissolved in water, the solvent, and the solute is homogeneously distributed in the solvent. Therefore, it is a solution. It is also a mixture because the components can be separated by mechanical means, distillation.