Boiling Point
The Main Idea
The main idea of this page is a description of the property of matter that is it's boiling point. In short, the boiling point is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid is equal to the pressure on the liquid.
A Mathematical Model
The main mathematical model for this property is the boiling point elevation equation. This equation takes into account the effect that adding a solute to a solvent has on it's boiling point. For example ΔT = i Kbm, where ΔT is the temperature difference that arises from adding the solute, i is the van 't Hoff factor which is equivalent to the number of substances a molecule ionizes into (i.e NaCl is 2, sugar is 1, MgCl2 is 3), Kb is a thermodynamic constant relating to the solvent, and m is the molality.
A Computational Model
Creating a computational model for this equation would be pretty easy, you would first have to initialize the constants, which would be i, Kb, and either m or the information that goes into calculating molality.
K = ???
m = moles of solute/mass of solvent
i = ???
ΔT = i*K*m
Examples
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