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Originally Posted by Army
Interesting you should say that the addition of any substance would raise the boiling point - I'm under the impression that cavitation inception has been observed to occur more readily in mixtures or in the presence of foreign matter (often called dirt!) than for a "pure" liquid.
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Yep. You can toss in sugar, salt, vinegar, etc and it will change boiling/freezing.
The "cavitation inception" I have heard of described as a nucleation source. That's why we put boiling chips in a beaker to control the boiling.
It is an entirely separate process than the colligative mechanism discussed above.
04-14-2011, 05:54 PM
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