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Raoult's Law: a Pseudo-Ideal System

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RELATIVELY few binary liquid mixtures obey Raoult's law in their vapour pressure relationships. Most of those which do so are mixtures of either isomers or close homologues. The components of the remainder are not, in general, highly polar substances1.

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BLACKBURN, A., KIPLING, J. Raoult's Law: a Pseudo-Ideal System. Nature 171, 174–175 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171174a0

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