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colligative properties

[kə′lig·ə·div ‚präp·ərd·ēz]

(physical chemistry)

Properties dependent on the number of molecules but not their nature.

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Hence, this colligative property plays a critical role in the selection of sweeteners for boiled candies and taffy.

The Solubility module covers a wide range of concepts: vapor pressure and solution equilibrium, molecular solvation, and factors affecting solubility, miscibility, dispersion, and colligative properties of solutions.

(1.) Our attempt to "narrativize" this complex set of events within the contingent and colligative bounds of a "story" is not to be read as an authoritative account of what actually took place in the oil industry in the 1970s and 1980s.

Methods based on colligative properties like osmotic pressure, and Raoult's law yield the number average molecular weight, whereas light scattering methods yield the weight average molecular weight.

[1970]: 'Colligative Properties of Anomalous Water', Nature, 226, pp.

Reducing sugar typically causes changes in the colligative properties of the ice cream (e.g.

Fiser and Fairfull (1986) stated that glycerol provides cryopreservation partly on a colligative basis by reducing the amount of ice formation and partly kinetically by increasing the time for water to leave the cell in response to the decreased vapor pressure of adjacent ice.

Recognizing that DMSP is employed by some organisms to help set the colligative properties of cellular solutions, Nishiguchi and Somero (1992) studied the effects of DMSP on cellular proteins.


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