| A third colligative property, osmotic pressure, helped to establish the fundamentals of modern physical chemistry and played a particularly important role in the early days of solution theory. |
| Colligative properties depend only on the concentration of the solute, not on the identity of the solute molecules. |
| The course continues with the study of gases, chemical kinetics, acid-base equilibria, colligative properties and solubility. |
| These studies distinguish the conformational and colligative properties of the individual bases in DNA and their inherent capacity to promote specific folding pathways. |
| Any solute will affect the colligative properties of a solution. |
| Another colligative property of solutions is the decrease in the freezing temperature of a solvent that is observed when a small amount of solute is dissolved in that solvent. |
