Have you ever gone swimming in the ocean? If you have, you've been swimming in a solution! Oceans are made of salt water, and salt water is a solution. A solution is a kind of mixture where one of the substances dissolves into the other one and cannot be easily separated. In this book, readers learn about all the kinds of solutions in the world, and even explore how they can make their very own with ingredients from the kitchen. The main text is aimed at elementary readers, with simple diagrams and a full glossary.

Includes index.

Properties of solutions -- Solutes and solvents -- Solubility -- Solid solutions -- Liquid solutions -- Gas solutions -- Miscibility -- Separating solutions -- Concentrates and dilutes.