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Salt dissolves better in hot water than in cold water, but gases dissolve better in cold than in hot water.

The reason salt dissolves better in hot water, is that heated water molecules have greater kinetic energy. Since the molecules move around more, the attractions between water molecules are weaker, and salts are able to enter.

The reason gases dissolve better in cold water, is that gases want to escape water. However, they are trapped by the water molecules. When the water is hot, the molecules move around more, and there is more space between them. Gases are then able to escape. When the water is cold, the molecules stick close together, and trap the oxygen.

In other words, the same conditions that help salts dissolve in water, allow gases to escape water.

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No, the amount of oxygen in the air remains constant regardless of temperature. However, cold air is denser than warm air, which can allow for slightly more oxygen to be present in a given volume of cold air compared to warm air.

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No. Cold water dissolves more oxygen than warm. There is lower thermal energy in colder water, and this lack of energy allows for intermolecular forces to keep O2 and H2O "bonded" by dipole - dipole forces. The 2 partial positive H's will induce a dipole on the O2, making the end of the O2, facing the hydrogen of the H2O, partially negative and attracting it to the partial positive H's. This makes the other side of the O2 partially positive. Then the partially negative O of another H2O will be attracted to the partially positive O of the induced dipole, and the O2 will be dissolved in the water. The greater the thermal energy, the more movement of molecules, the less chance for these intermolecular forces to act.

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Cold air is denser than warm air, so there is technically more oxygen per unit of volume, but the same is true of all the other gasses in air. The composition does not change with temperature.

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Colder water will have a higher dissolved oxygen (DO) level than that of warmer water, because gases are trapped by the water molecules at cold temperatures. When the temperature rises, the molecules move around more, and gases, such as dissolved oxygen, are able to escape.

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Because the ability of a liquid to dissolve anything is normally greater at lower temperatures (the molecules jostle around less when it's colder).

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Cold water can dissolve more oxygen than warmer water.

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Warm water is more able to dissolve oxygen gas than cold water.

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