What are some practical applications of freezing point depression, boiling point elevation, and vapor press?
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May 17, 2018
Have you never seen the roads salted in winter?
Explanation:
See this old answer. And this is a clear exploitation of the melting point depression phenomenon.
And at a more practical level for chemists, boiling point elevation, and freezing point depression phenomena can be used to assess the molecularity of a solute, and sometimes an accurate molecular mass.
And as another example, consider ice-cream. Chemists usually use liquid-nitrogen to make ice-cream. You COULD use water-ice doused with common salt to depress the melting point of water LOWER than
