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Competency Exam in Physical Chemistry
Competency Exam in Physical Chemistry
Competency Exam in Physical Chemistry
Benzene and toluene form a solution which is very nearly ideal. Consider a mixture of benzene (Bz)
and toluene (Tol) at 60o C. At 60o C the vapor pressures of pure benzene and pure toluene are 385
Torr and 139 Torr, respectively. What are the vapor pressures of benzene and toluene in a mixture with
XBz = 0.400, and XTol = 0.600, and what is the composition of the vapor in equilibrium with this
solution?
Use Raoult's law to find the vapor pressures of the two species,
The total pressure is the sum of these two individual pressures, 237 Torr.
The composition of the vapor phase is obtained from the vapor pressures and Dalton's law of partial
pressures,