I’m risking being wrong about being wrong on this one, because I’ve recently been informed that my lifelong, rock solid conception of salt’s effect on water is half backwards. 49 years believing the salt simply shifted the entire state if matter index of water downward, so that both the freezing and boiling points lowered. I guess because I could see the effect on ice in the wintertime, but never bothered to measure at which point my pasta water actually came to a boil. I looked up some explanations but I can’t get my head wrapped around it. What did I get wrong?
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