Question

2. Rinse out your jars and fill them 3/4-full with clean water. Sprinkle a small amount of salt into one jar and a small amount of wheat flour (any powdered substance like powdered milk or hot cocoa ect. into the other jar. Place the lids on and shake. a. What difference(s) do you see? b. Why, do you suppose? (Try to come up with a couple of hypotheses)

Answer 1

#2.

a) . The jar into which salt is added will show a clear solution while the jar with wheat flour will show a suspension solution (having white particles of wheat flour in the solution which will settle down after sometime).

b). Because salt is soluble in water and it mixes with water completely that is why jar with salt forms clear solution, on the other hand wheat flour is insoluble in water and remains as it is that's why jar with wheat flour have a suspension solution on shaking .