How do you calculate the boiling point of a compound?

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anor277
Sep 27, 2016

In fact the boiling point of a material is measured.

Explanation:

And the temperature and ambient pressure are recorded. Typically, for vacuum distillation, the pressure is reported in #"mm Hg"#. When the #"normal boiling point"# is reported, the ambient pressure is #1*atm#. Sometimes you can find tables, sometimes useful, that extrapolate the boiling point recorded at one pressure to the boiling point you would observe at a different pressure.

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