Metals are to the left of the zig-zag, nonmetals are to the right, and metalloids lie on/beside the line.
Answer:Sugar
Explanation:Things being dissolved are solutes and things doing the dissolving are the solutions. So Sugar is being dissolved by water which makes sugar the solute.
Ionic bonds are formed as one atom the metal gives up or transfers one of its valence electron to the other atom that would then be able to accept it. This other atom is a non metal. This process occurs because the atoms want to become more stable by each of them satisfying the octet rule. In which atoms would have a maximum of 8 valence electrons.
A process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one thus equalizing the concentrations on each side of the membrane. I hope this helps :D
It is a chemical <em>process</em> - an oxidation.