Taylor stirs 2 grams of salt into a cup of water. She then tries to get the salt back by evaporating the water. In this experiment, the mass of the salt recovered because ...

A. Some of the salt evaporates with the water

B. Salt does not evaporate with water

C. A chemical change occurred

D. salt does not dissolve in water

D. salt does not dissolve in water

B salt does, in fact, dissolve with water, (fun fact when the salt is dissolved it can be considered aqueous as its form of water) and the salt can be separated from the water by evaporation. This is because water can evaporate but salt does not so all of the salt can be recovered by evaporating the water out of the mixture