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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