Carlotta adds too much salt to her soup. She recalls that evaporation can be used to separate salt from salt water, so she plans to leave the soup on the stove on low heat until the soup is less salty. Which will most likely happen to her soup?

When soup is heated, water can evaporate, but dissolved salt does not evaporate with it. As water leaves the pot, the same amount of salt remains in less liquid, so the soup becomes more concentrated and tastes saltier. Choice C, “The soup will become saltier because evaporation removes the water and leaves the salt behind,” is correct.

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