I was in chemistry today and we were discussing aqueous solutions (such as NaCl). However, these are only in water. What is it called to have a solution of NaCl in something like liquid oxygen? Or mercury? When I asked my chemistry teacher she simply said we don’t go into that subject in our curriculim.
‘aqueous solution’ is, as I understand, a term that was invented largely because so many of the chemical reactions that chemists work with occur in a solution of water… solvents as esoteric as liquid oxygen and mercury don’t have terms like that I’m pretty sure… (though you could possibly come up with a fancy one using the latin name of mercury… how about hydrargyreous solution?? )
I do remember, though, in one of my chemistry textbooks, they explained how there’s nothing particularly unique about chemistry in aqueous solutions except how water is a good solvent and some of the reactions are important in biochemistry since living tissue has so much water in it… they even went into a brief discussion of what chemistry in ammoneous (sp?) solutions would be like and demonstrated a few equations and equilibri with (amm) used to indicate components in ammoneous solution… including, IIRC, an example of different ions in ammoneous solution combining to form NH3 (l) : liquid ammonia, just like in acid-base reactions in aqueous solution you have H30 (aq) + HO (aq) = 2 H2O (l) : a hydronium ion and hydroxide ion in aqueous solution exchanging a proton to form two molecules of liquid water, which adds itself to the solvent.