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Does the Amount of Salt Added to Water Affect Its Freezing Point?

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Does the Amount of Salt Added to Water Affect Its Freezing Point?

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When salt or other compounds dissolve in water, the freezing point of the water goes down. This freezing point depression is a colligative property of water, meaning that it depends only on solute concentration and not the identity of the solute.