Sodium+Acetate+Super+Saturation

This is the demonstration I did for mole day. It is supersaturation of sodium acetate.

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Sodium acetate, when heated and cooled, becomes supersaturated in water This means that it is has more solute dissolved in it than it should be possible. When it comes into contatn with another sodium acetate crystal, it recrystalizes, and thus it forms a solid. 