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Partial Pressure Curve
Trevor M. Letcher
School of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Natal, Durban, 4041, South Africa

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September 2004
Vol. 81 No. 9
p. 1267

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The author replies to Lunelli.

Yes, the reader is correct. I have drawn the diagram very badly! I apologize for this. The real vapor pressure line must approach the Raoult line asymptotically.

The diagram was to show that the real and ideal vapor pressures of a binary mixture, as a function of composition, were usually very different. No thought was given to the fact that the vapor pressure of a real mixture always approaches ideality as the mole fraction composition approaches unity.

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Letcher, Trevor M. J. Chem. Educ. 2004 81 1267.
*  Keywords
Physical Chemistry; Solutions / Solvents; Teaching/Learning Theory/Practice; Thermodynamics
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