# Does Henry's law depend on curvature of gas/liquid interface?

Could you tell me Henry's law depends on curvature of gas/liquid interface or not? It would be better with references.

• This could be a good quesiton if you edit it to show an attempt to solve it. Otherwise it will likely be closed as a homework question. Also see the Kelvin equation – A.K. Aug 3 '18 at 4:14

But if you attempt to combine Henry with the effect of surface curvature, say by combining it with Kelvin's equation, you run into a serious problem. The equilibrium difference of pressure between a liquid, $p^L$, and its vapour, $p^V$, when the liquid has a curvature of radius $r$ is
$$p^L = p^V + 2\sigma/r$$
where $\sigma$ is the surface tension of the liquid. And that's when you run into a problem - surface tension of a liquid mixture also depends on the composition, so the entire point of Henry's law (that concentration of a species in solution is proportional to its partial pressure with a proportionality constant $H^{cp}$) is lost. Even if you accept the simplest case (that surface tension behaves ideally with composition following Gibb's isotherm) you are stuck with a $H^{cp}$ that is itself a function of $c$, and so the mathematical model has definitely moved away from Henry.