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This statement is incorrect. If you add a solute to a solvent the total volume is not equal to the volume of the solute plus the volume of the solvent. This seems counterintuitive but when adding two different compounds together these compounds may stack together better or worse than they would separately. This can be seen very readily when mixing pure ethanol and water. It also results in the fact that using normal distillation methods you cannot get ethanol more pure than 95%.

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