What's a Colorless Solution?

A solution is a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances evenly distributed in each other. ... When salt dissolved in water to make salt water, the solution formed is clear and colorless. When sugar is dissolved in water, again a clear, colorless solution is formed.

What forms Colourless solution?

Sc3+ has completely empty d-orbitals hence, it forms a colourless solutions in aqueous medium.

How do you know if a solution is Colourless?

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It works by sending a beam of light through a cuvette filled with the solution, and, depending on how much light passes through, the spectrophotometer can measure the amount of light/photons that was/were absorbed. If the solution is colorless, it absorbs no light.

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