Components of Solution

When you put sugar into water, it dissolves to form a solution. Like sugar, a large number of other substances such as common salt, urea, and potassium chloride dissolve in water forming solution. In all such solutions, water is the solvent and substances which dissolve are the solutes.

Thus, solute and solvent are the components of a solution. Whenever a solute mixes homogeneously with a solvent, a solution is formed.

Solute + Solvent → Solution

A solution is a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances. Solvent is that component of a solution that has the same physical state as the solution itself. Solute is the substance that is dissolved in a solvent to form a solution.