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Q.How vapour pressure lowering is related to a rise in boiling point of solution?

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Step 1. A liquid boils when its vapour pressure reaches the applied (atmospheric, 760 mm) pressure.

Step 2. Vapour pressure lowering (section 2.7) means that, at ANY given temperature, the solution's vapour pressure is lower than the pure solvent's.

Step 3. So on a vapour-pressure-vs-temperature graph, the solution's curve sits below the solvent's curve throughout, meaning the solution's curve reaches the 760 mm line only at a HIGHER temperature than the solvent's curve does.

Step 4. This higher crossing temperature is the solution's boiling point TbT_b, and it is necessarily above the pure solvent's boiling point Tb0T_b^0 -- i.e. vapour pressure lowering DIRECTLY causes boiling point elevation, they are not independent effects.

✓Final answer

Vapour pressure lowering pushes the solution's vapour-pressure curve below the solvent's at every temperature, so a higher temperature is needed to reach the 760 mm boiling threshold -- this extra required temperature is the boiling point elevation, making elevation a direct consequence of the lowering.

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