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Why do different liquids have different equilbrium vapor pressures?
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What is a laboratory procedure that separates liquids through the manipulation of vapor pressures?
Distillation.
Distillation is a process that can separate two liquids using what?
Distillation separates two liquids that have significantly different vapor pressures. The usual process uses heat to evaporate the gas with the higher vapor pressure. The gaseous form of the liquid is moved to a different container, where it is cooled, causing the gas to condense back into a liquid. In practical application, there is a limit to how completely two substances can be separated using distillation, because some of the substance with a lower vapor pressure will always evaporate along with the substance with higher vapor pressure.
Is the vapor pressure of chloroform less than that of water?
No, the vapor pressure of chloroform is higher than that of Water. The normal boiling point of chloroform is at 61 °C and approx. 39 °C lower than that of water. For calculating vapor pressures of chloroform and water at different pressures you could visit the links below.
Do blended refrigerants leak from a system at a faster or slower rate?
at uneven rates due to different vapor pressures.
How are two liquids separated using distillation?
Liquids can be separated by distillation because they have different boiling or condensation points. Alcohol boils at a lower temperature than water so the mixture is heated to the boiling point of alcohol and it leaves the mixture as a vapor (like steam) and is then cooled to become liquid again. In the case of petroleum the crude oil is heated and turns into a vapor. The vapor it allowed to rise in a tall tube (called a cracking tower because it breaks the oil vapor apart), As the vapor rises in the tube it becomes cooler and cooler. Different constituents of the vapor turn back into a liquid at different (cooler) heights in the tube. The liquid from the different heights is captured and drained into different tanks than the other liquids.
What are the different kinds of volatile liquids?
Liquid that has a high boiling point. A liquid that releases molecules as a vapor.
What is the study of liquid pressures called?
Vapor Pressure(: Hope I helped!
What cools when boiling occurs the water that leaves in the form of vapor or the water that remains the liquids?
The vapor
What does volatility refer to?
the tendency of liquids to form a vapor
What term describes liquids that evaporate slowly?
The simple answer is "volatile" means - evaporates qucker.... In more detail though, volatile liquids have high vapor pressures at the existing conditions than non-volatile liquids. Because they have high vapor pressures, if the gas they are in contact with (usually the atmosphere is the gas of interest) is not already saturated with the vapor of the liquid, there is a stronger driving force for moving from the liquid to gas phase, i.e. to move toward equilibrium, than for a non-volatile liquid. Rates of evaporation and diffusion of the vapor away from the surface of the liquid can actually be written in terms of the difference in Gibbs Free energy in the liquid and vapor phases of the volatile substance - although such exercises in non-equilibrium thermodynamics are generally limited to a pretty small group of people doing research along those lines.
What is the temperature at which vapor pressures of solid and liquid phases are the same?
27.dahah
A large and a small container of water with the same temperature have?
They have the same vapor pressures.
