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Title: Why does impurities affect boiling and melting point
Post by: hell9 on October 26, 2005, 11:35:03 AM

My teacher only says that impurities would increase boiling point and decrease melting point, which is true as reflected by experiments, but why does it affect?

Title: Re:Why does impurities affect boiling and melting point
Post by: Mitch on October 26, 2005, 12:10:17 PM

look up "colligative properties" on the internet.