Why does instant coffee dissolve but regular ground coffee does not?

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Why does instant coffee dissolve but regular ground coffee does not?

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Making regular coffee involves passing hot water through coffee grounds to extract their contents into a liquid. The grounds themselves do not dissolve.

Instant coffee takes this a step further and dehydrates the resulting liquid to form dried coffee crystals. When you add them to water they dissolve.

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