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Raoult's Law and Lower Vapor Pressure
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Raoult’s law explains why a solution with a nonvolatile solute has a lower vapor pressure than the pure liquid. Vapor pressure is the pressure from a liquid’s gas phase when vaporization and condensation happen at equal rates. When a nonvolatile substance dissolves in a volatile liquid, the liquid’s equilibrium vapor pressur...
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Some properties of a solution depend on the type of solute. An aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid turns a pH paper red, while a sodium hydroxide solution turns it blue.
Other properties of a solution depend only on the concentration or the number of particles of the solute rather than the type of solute. These are called colligative pr...
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