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How does one increase the melting or boiling point of a substance?

Add impurities (salt and others) to the substance.


Dose salt change waters boiling point?

How salt effects the boiling point of water is that if you add salt to water then the temperature will get higher because salt helps it get hotter. It helps it get hotter by the ingredents in the salt and more heat there is the more it boils and the more it boils the hotter temperature.AnswerHow salt effects the boiling point of water is that if you add salt to water then the temperature will get higher because salt helps it get hotter. It helps it get hotter by the ingredents in the salt and more heat there is the more it boils and the more it boils the hotter temperature.


Can water get higher than its boiling point?

yes, if you add salt.


What is the affect of the boiling point when you add salt in pure water?

It raises the boiling point of water and it can make it taste funny and yooh smell


A cook decided to add salt to a pot of soup that was boiling on the stove. As soon as the salt was added the soup stopped boiling. Explain why this happened?

Adding the salt to the soup raised the boiling point of the water in the soup. This is a well known phenomena in thermodynamics that when you add a solute (especially one with a much higher boiling point than the solvent) to a solvent (which is water in this case) you will initially increase the temperature at which the resulting solution will boil - and incidentally also depress the temperature at which it will freeze.


What happens when you add salt to boiling water?

When you add salt to boiling water, it increases the boiling point of the water. This means that the water will need to reach a higher temperature before it boils. Additionally, the salt can enhance the flavor of the food being cooked in the water.


Does salt lower the boiling point?

Yes, Salt also lowers the freezing point of water, and lowers the boiling point of water. Add salt to a boiling pot of water and it immediately boils faster/harder at the location that the Salt hit the water.


Why does the water bubble up then stop then it starts again just by adding salt?

When you add the salt it increases the boiling point of the water, so bubbling stops until this new solution reaches its boiling point. Adding salt, sugar, or any solute to water raises the boiling point and lowers the freezing point of water.


Boiling point for salt water?

The boiling point on saltwater is normally 100 degrees Celsius, (212 Fahrenheit). But it depends on how much salt there is; the more salt, the longer it takes, less salt, less time. Hope that helped!


What is the bolling point of water if you add salt or pepper?

It depends on how much of the salt or pepper that you add to the water. The boiling point is a colligative property which means that it depends on the number of particles present in the system.


When do you add salt to water when boiling potatoes?

Add the salt to the water before you add the potatoes. If you are boiling potatoes with the intention of mashing them, don't add salt at all.


Does adding salt to boiling water make it boil faster?

In short; absolutely not. However, if you wish to read on.........According to the colligative properties of solutions, if you add a solute (salt) to a solvent (water), then the addition of the salt will cause the water's boiling point to increase.The equation for boiling point elevation is dT = KbM where dT is the temperature change, Kb is the ebullioscopic constant, and M is Molality of the solution. The Molality is equal to the moles of solute (salt) divided by the kilograms of solvent (water). By increasing the amount of moles (amount) of salt, you increase the temperature change.The Kb of water is 0.512. To raise the boiling point of 1 liter of water (1kg) by 2oC, you would have to add nearly 230 grams of table salt. The amount of salt you add when cooking (such as pasta) doesn't really change the temperature by much at all, its more for flavor.