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Grade 11Organic Chemistry

what happens to the boiling point of a solvent if a non volatile solute is dissolved in it? explain the reason?

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11 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Aziz Alam
11 Years ago
There is elevation in boiling point. If solute is dissolved in slovent the vapor pressure decreases. When the vapor pressure decreases then for the solution to boil one needs to increase the pressure by the same amount. For this we need to increase the temperature.
Hence, boiling point or boiling temperature increases.