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How do hydrogen bonds break the ionic bonds of a crystal lattice? [duplicate]

In the case of water dissolving sodium chloride. I was under the impression that hydrogen bonds were much weaker than the ionic bonds in sodium chloride, so how do they overcome the ionic bond ...
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Why do increasing concentrations of zinc chloride not linearly decrease the freezing point?

I did an experiment on how different concentrations of $\ce{ZnCl2}$ affect the freezing point of demi water. My results were that till a concentration of about $10\ \mathrm{mol\,dm^{-3}}$ the freezing ...
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