The Effect of Sugar and Salt

on the Boiling Point of

Water
By: Balint, Zo, Zach, and Ruby
 Procedure
We know that the boiling point of water, 100C, is a
physical property of water, but does the boiling point
remain 100C if table sugar or table salt is added to the
water?

Bring water to a boil at 100C .

Add sugar to one beaker.
Add salt to one of the beakers.
Sugar dissolves almost immediately.
The temperature goes down 2C.
Salt dissolves almost immediately. H2O H2O
The temperature goes up 1C.
Materials

Table sugar
C12H22O11

2 250 mL
beakers of Electric
Flas water balance
k H2O
Table salt
NaCl

Two Celsius
thermometers
Finding the mass of the table
sugar and table salt.
Water and
sugar
solution.
The 2
beakers on
the hot plate.
The hot plate
is at 550C. f
i n g 2 5 0 mL o
Measur g a flask.
sin
water u

Sugar
Boiling water and
Salt
finding the mass
of the sugar and
salt.
Dissolving the table sugar in water.
Precision
Examples

Tilting the
Leveling off the sugar using a thermometers to
protracter to get a precise submerge the
amount of sugar. thermometers up
to the line in the
solution.
Precision 2 Celsius thermometers.
Examples 1 thermometer for each beaker of
solution so that the solutions are not
contaminated.
Bubbling Boiling

The bubbling point of

water is 75C, which is
lower than the boiling
point of water, 100C.
Data Table.
Solution (below) Boiling Change in Mass of Volume Color
Physical Point(C) boiling solute (g) (mL)
Property point (C)

H2O (water) 100 N/a 250.0 250 Clear

solvent

H2O and 98 -2 11.0 Mostly

C12H22O11 (table clear, a few
sugar/solute) floating
solution specks

H2O and NaCl 101 +1 11.7 Cloudy

(table white
salt/solute)
solution