what does water do to the boiling point of salt?

Question

i surmise salt has a boiling point. otherwise it has a theoretic extrapolated boiling point from thermo-dynamic properties.

Answer 1

Boiling is defined as the phase transition between liquid and gas phases. Surprisingly, NaCl does indeed exist in those states and does have a boiling point of 1465 C (sap). Water would not be a solid solute at that temperature but a gas. Even with the effects of hydrogen bonding, I doubt there would be any appreciable effect of mixing in that water vapor. The internal energy would be so high to probably make bonding unlikely and be dominated by hard molecular scattering.

Answer 2

I think you meant it the other way around. Salt melts and boils at a very high temperature by when the water would have boiled off.

Salt raises the boiling point of water.