Students will be able to plan and carry out an investigation to compare the solubility of different substances, and develop and explain a particle-level model to describe the process of dissolving.

Whether and how much a substance dissolves (solubility) is a property of that substance. To compare the dissolving of different substances, they need to be tested in the same way. Students develop a ...

Heat can help some substances dissolve faster in water. Salt, for example, will dissolve quicker in hot water than in cold water. When a substance dissolves, it might look like it has disappeared ...

They carried out an extensive screening in which they systematically tested more than 2,400 different substances in cell cultures to find active agents against clusters of circulating tumour cells ...

The agent would have to be administered in combination with other substances that kill existing ... based on digoxin that are even better at dissolving the CTC clusters. The ETH spin-off, Page ...