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PowerPoint Handouts for Boiling Point and Pressure

Relationship

Bubbles of vaporized
Boiling Point and liquid (i.e., gas) form
within the bulk liquid and
Pressure then rise to the surface
where they burst and
Relationship releasethegas.

Boiling Point and Pressure

The temperature of a boiling liquid
Relationship remains constant, even when more
A liquid boils at a temperature at which its heat is added.
vapor pressure is equal to the pressure of the
gas above it.

The lower the pressure of a gas above a liquid,

the lower the temperature at which the liquid
will boil.

High altitude areas have lower

As a liquid is heated, its
vapor pressure increases atmospheric pressure than lower
until the vapor pressure altitude areas. At sea level, average
equals the pressure of the atmospheric pressure is 1.00 atm.
gasabove it.
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Lowatmospheric Why atmospheric pressure does

pressure affects the boiling point of a liquid
but not the melting point of a solid?

High
atmospheric because…
because…
pressure

Boiling point of water at 1.00 atm Atmospheric pressure

pressure is 100 degrees Celsius. readily exerts pressure
on the molecules of
Directly proportional to atmospheric liquid, but not on solid,
pressure. for the molecules of
solid are already
compact together.

Why do ionic compounds

have a
high boiling point?
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What are the two

… because ionic compounds have high elements having
boiling point due to the strong the highest Tungste
boiling point?
electrostatic attraction between the ions n
Answer:
involved.
and

rhenium

Pressure What isthe purpose of

When the external pressure is:
determining the boiling point
of asubstance?
 less than one atmosphere, the boiling point
of the liquid is lower than its normal boiling
point.

The boiling point of a liquid equal to one

atmosphere is called the normal boiling p oint..
point
It is very useful in determining
the purity of a substance. If the
Answer: substance boil greater than the
The boiling point of the liquid greater than
normal boiling point of a
one atmosphere is also greater than its normal
substance then it is a good
boiling point
indication that the substance is
not pure.
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