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Explain the meaning of the van't Hoff factor and its role in determining the colligative properties of solutions containing ionic solutes.
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It is used to account for the effect of solute dissociation on the colligative properties of a solution, which are properties that depend only on the number of solute particles in the solution, not on their chemical nature. In the case of non-electrolyte solutes, Show more…
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