Describe what happens to salt when it dissolves in water.

When you put salt in water, the positive ions gravitate toward the negative sides of the water molecules while the negative ions move towards the other sides. In this way, each water molecule disrupts the lattice structure, and the result is a solution of free ions suspended in water. As more salt is dissolved, sodium and chlorine ions bump into each other and re-combine into crystals of salt.

- aluminum and copper chloride.

- the chloride ion to separate the aluminum from the oxygen so that the aluminum can react with the copper ions (and the water molecules).

a rain shadow is a dry region of land on the side that is protected against the prevailing winds of a mountain range. the prevailing winds are the winds that occur most of the time in a particular place of the earth

prevailing winds carry air toward the mountain range. as the air rises up over a mountain range, the air cools, water vapor condenses, and clouds form. on this side of the mountains, called the windward side, precipitation falls in the form of  rain  or snow. this dry air produces a  rain shadow.