A student stirs 2 tablespoons of honey into a glass of water. How will the addition of honey affect the water’s colligative properties?

Dissolved honey adds solute particles to the water. More dissolved particles increase the water’s osmotic pressure, while the solute lowers the fraction of water molecules at the surface that can escape into vapor, decreasing vapor pressure. Thus, osmotic pressure increases and vapor pressure decreases.

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