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what's the difference between melting and dissolving?
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what's the difference between melting and dissolving?
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Are they different? If they are, why?
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Heat melts something, a solvant desolves something, i will now hand it over to those in the know who can explain it because i'm getting confused [
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Quote from: paul.fr on 25/08/2007 17:24:18
Are they different? If they are, why?
Usually dissolving means dispersing the body's particles among the solvent's particles (e.g. salt in water), while melting means making a solid become liquid.
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