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How is lowering in vapour pressure a colligative property?
Imagine we have two containers: A and B. Both contain equal amounts of water and we add (say 50) molecules of sucrose and 50 molecules of glucose in containers A and B respectively.
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Bubbling air through hydrochloric acid to generate HCl gas
I am trying to build a system to generate dry HCl gas. I was wondering if you bubble air through diluted HCl will it produce a gas with mostly water vapor or HCL vapor, can we vary the proportions of ...
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THF-H2O mixture at 80°C? isn't THF supposed to evaporate completely?
I was running a synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles starting from a aqueous solution of TiCl4 2THF 0.125M at 80°C. Through a different experiment it was detemined that the maximum reaction yield was 96% ...
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Explaining Vapour Pressure and Evaporation by Chemical Potential
According to the coexistence curves, both gas and liquid phases can only exist when the chemical potential of both phases are equal.
Does this mean above and below the coexistence curve of liquid and ...
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Understanding how evaporation works [closed]
I am struggling to grasp the concept of partial pressure and vapor pressure.
Consider a sealed container filled with water and a bit of air that is sufficiently dry placed in a room of temperature 25 ...
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How does the Szilard-Einstein refrigerator design evaporate its refrigerant?
In their 1927 patent, Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein use butane as a refrigerant in their non-compressive refrigerator design. In the patent the authors begin the description of the principle of ...
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Saturation of air within isolated system with water and ethanol
I am planning an experiment in an isolated system that contains two droplets.
One droplet is water and the other one is a 40% ethanol-water mixture.
The isolated compartment is filled with air at 20°C....
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Some salts lower the vapour pressure of water - do any raise it?
Plain old NaCl salt can slightly lower the vapour pressure of water for a given temperature. Other salts such as CaCl₂ lower the vapour pressure to a larger degree.
Do any salts, or compounds of any ...
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In an open system, can water vapor escape into the atmosphere before reaching the boiling point? [duplicate]
In a closed system, water vapor would have nowhere to go and atmospheric pressure would not be a factor. It would reach dynamic equilibrium with only water vapor.
But in an open system, I think that ...
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Why vapor pressure is unaffected by change in atmospheric pressure [duplicate]
I am a high school student and I am very confused in a topic about "vapor pressure of liquid". Why doesn't a change in atmospheric pressure affect vapor pressure? I think intuitively that ...
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Relative humidity and vapor-pressure in equilibrium
I have quite an unclear understanding of relative humidity. I am writing my understanding on the topic and please correct me wherever I'm wrong:
What I understood:
Let's say $\ce{H2O}$ has a (...
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Why does Vapor Pressure decrease on addition of solute? [duplicate]
Consider a vessel with a volatile liquid in it. Let's say it has a vapor pressure $P^0$ when it is pure.
Now a non-volatile solute is added to it. Its vapor pressure decreases as $P^0\chi_{solvent}$.
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Detailed kinetic explanation for vapor pressure reduction by dissolved solute?
The following problem was asked in JEE Mains 2020 (Sept 2, Shift 1),
An open beaker of water in equilibrium with water vapor is in a sealed container. When a few grams of glucose are added to the ...
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