adjective
- relating to or denoting properties of solutions that depend on the concentration of dissolved particles rather than their chemical nature
Usage: chemistry; technical
Examples
- Freezing point depression is a colligative property of solutions.
- The colligative properties include boiling point elevation and osmotic pressure.
- Students studied colligative properties in their physical chemistry course.
- Salt water has different colligative properties than pure water.
- The colligative nature of these effects depends only on particle concentration.
- Vapor pressure lowering is another important colligative property.