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Cases when Raoult's law is unsolvable

Setup Consider a closed binary mixture of known total molar composition $n_i$, held at volume $V$ and temperature $T$. The equilibrium phase composition is determined by $\mu_i^{vap} = \mu_i^{liq}$. ...
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Liquid solutions and vapour pressure

"The vapour pressure of water at 80° C is 355 torr. A 100 mL vessel contained water-saturated oxygen at 80° C, the total gas pressure being 760 torr. The contents of the vessel were pumped into a 50 ...
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Is it possible to have only liquid in a closed container?

I recently read an answer by Aman Rusia for this question: Is a liquid in a container always in equilibrium with its vapour? In it, they say that You can't have a container filled with only ...
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Reason for formation of bubbles at boiling point [duplicate]

As I understand it, boiling takes place when the saturated vapour pressure equals to the atmospheric pressure. But, why does the vapour pressure need to be equal to the atmospheric pressure for ...
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How does association within vapor or dissociation within liquid affect the ideal nature of a binary solution?

As I understand, when there is positive deviation of a binary solution from Raoult's Law, the equilibrium partial pressure curve approach ideality (i.e a straight line dependence of equilibrium ...
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Why is the equilibrium constant of water with its vapour equivalent to its vapour pressure?

Can someone conceptually explain why the equilibrium constant is equivalent to the vapour pressure of water for the above equilibrium reaction? For example if $K = x$, then it is said that vapour ...
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What causes both components of a binary gas mix to condensate at the same time for a given composition

Okay, so recently I encountered the temperature - mole fraction diagrams for binary vapour-liquid equilibrium. For now, I only consider two-component systems where the components are very similar and ...
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Anhydrous ammonia vapor-liquid equilibrium

I have been given a anhydrous ammonia vapor liquid system in an air-tight container where the pressure is 30 bar and the temperature is 30 degrees. They claim the system is in equilibrium, which I ...
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Bromine monochloride equilibrium

The value of $K_p$ for the reaction $$\ce{Br2(l) + Cl2(g) <=> 2BrCl(g)}$$ is $\pu{1 atm}$. At equilibrium in a closed container partial pressure of $\ce{BrCl}$ gas is $\pu{0.1 atm}$ and at ...
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Solution to Raoult's Law for a volatile binary solution (no pun intended)

Raoult's Law In a closed container, $$P_A=P_A^\circ x_A$$ where $P_A$ is the pressure of compound in gaseous phase, and $x_A$ is the mole fraction of the liquid component A in the liquid mixture. If ...
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Water vapor equilibrium calculations

The question had two parts. The first part said: Calculate the amount of water required to saturate a vessel of volume 82 L at 300 K given that the vapor pressure of water is 38 torr at 300 K. The ...
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Is vapour pressure of a liquid solution constant at a given temperature, no matter the size of closed container and amount of liquid taken?

Does vapour pressure of a liquid solution depend on the size of the closed container, the amount of solution taken, given that, the temperature is kept constant? Or will it change if some extra gas is ...
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Vapour pressure and equilibrium constant

Consider a case I where I have a container halfway filled with a pure volatile solvent. Now we know that liquid molecules will start getting converted into vapour phase, and then dynamic equilibrium ...
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The effect of pressure on boiling point?

My textbook states the following: Qualitatively, I understand why the boiling point of a substance increases when the pressure is increased. However, I learned that if the pressure is increased when ...
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Effect of an inert gas on steam vapor pressure at equilibrium

Suppose we have a closed container with mobile walls, so it will change its volume in order to equal the external pressure(constant) to the internal pressure. This container has inside it a liquid ...
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