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What does colligative mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chemistry) Describing any property that depends only on the number of molecules present.
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Any solute will affect the colligative properties of a solution.
This is a part of the effects of enlarged body fluid volume arising from its colligative properties with exerting osmotic forces for retaining body water.
These are the colligative properties of a solution, and the property that road salt crews exploit is freezing-point depression.
The course continues with the study of gases, chemical kinetics, acid-base equilibria, colligative properties and solubility.
This lowers the water activity as it is a colligative property which depends on number of solute particles present in solution.
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.

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