document.write( "Question 830498: explain why if u dissolve 10cm cube of salt in 50cm cube of water the total volume is not 60cm cube?
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Roughly, the salt molecules fit between water molecules in some sense, so that the total space occupied is less than 60cm. I do not remember how to figure out how much less. \n" ); document.write( "

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