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How does NaCl lower the freezing point of water?

April 26, 2017freezing lower nacl point water

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How does NaCl lower the freezing point of water?

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One way to think about this is that the solute molecules “get in the way” of the freezing process: they don’t fit into the regular crystalline lattice of the solid, which makes it harder to go from a liquid to a solid, which means the freezing point goes down.