What Does Colligative Property Mean

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What is colligative property/ what does it mean?
Colligative properties are the properties of solutions that result from adding a solute, like salt, to a solvent such as water. Colligative properties depend on the number of particles that is dissolved into the solution. Colligative Properties include how freezing temperature, boiling temperature and vapor pressure change. Most of the changes in the temperatures are due to the vapor pressure. The vapor pressure changes when a solute is dissolved into a solution. The freezing temperature of a solution would decrease in most solutions because few solutes dissolve well in solid solvents. The temperature needed to boil a solution would increase because of the equilibrium between liquid and gas phases.