Name:______________________________ Grade & Sec: __________________

Activity 1.3
What is the evidence that a solution is saturated?

I. Procedure:
1.Put 100 mL of water in a small, clear transparent glass. Add ½ teaspoon of sugar and stir.
Q1. What is the appearance of the solution? Write your observations.
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2. To the sugar solution in step 1, add ½ teaspoon sugar, a small portion at a time and stir the
solution to dissolve the sugar. At this point, you have added 1 teaspoon sugar.
3. Add ½ teaspoon of sugar to the sugar solution in step 2 and stir the solution. At this point,
you have added 1 and ½ teaspoon of sugar.
4. Continue adding ½ teaspoon sugar to the same cup until the added sugar no longer
dissolves.

II. Observation
A. Table

Step Number Amount of salt added Observations

1 ½ tsp

2 1 tsp

3 1 ½ tsp

4 2 tsp

5 2 ½ tsp

6 3 tsp
3 ½ tsp
7

8 4 tsp

IV. Analysis:
Q2. What did you observed after adding 1/2 tsp of sugar in a 100 ml water?
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Q3. How many teaspoons of sugar have you added until the sugar no longer dissolves?
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Q4. How many teaspoons of sugar dissolved completely in 100 mL of water?
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Q6. From the solutions that you have made, which is the saturated solution and which is
the unsaturated solution? Support your answer.
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