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Electrolyte Ions and the van't Hoff Factor
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Electrolyte ions affect colligative properties because these properties depend on the number of dissolved particles, not their identity. The concentration terms used for freezing point depression, boiling point elevation, and osmotic pressure include every solute species present in the solution. Nonelectrolytes dissolve with...
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Colligative properties of a solution depend on the actual number of dissolved solute particles.
For a non-electrolyte, each solute molecule that dissolves yields one dissolved solute molecule.
However, ionic electrolytes, such as sodium chloride, dissociate into ions when dissolved, while ammonia gas, a covalent electrolyte, reac...
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