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Ideal Solutions
Ideal solutions :
An ideal solution one in which the molecules attract one another with equal force irrespective of their nature. Thus, a solution composed of two components A and B will be an ideal one if the forces between A and A, B and B should be the same. An ideal solution possesses the following characteristics:
(i) Volume change of mixing should be zero.
?Vmix = 0; Vsolvent + Vsolute = Vsolution
(ii) Heat change on mixing should be zero.
?Hmix = 0 (Heat is neither absorbed nor evolved).
(iii) There should be no chemical reaction between solvent and solute.
solvent + solute → solution
H2O + NH3 → NH4OH
H2O + CO2 → H2CO3 Non-ideal
H2O + CaO → Ca(OH)2
(iv) Solute molecules should be not dissociate in the ideal solution.
Aqueous medium
NaCl —————————→ Na+ + Cl−
Non-ideal
Aqueous medium
H2SO4 —————————→ 2H++ SO42–
(v) Solute molecules should not associate in ideal solution.
(vi) Ideal solutions must obey Raoult’s law at all concentrations.
The following are some of the binary mixtures which show the properties of ideal solutions.
(a) Benzene and toluene.
(b) Carbon tetrachloride, and silicon tetrachloride,
(c) N-Hexane and n-heptane,
Ethylene dibromide and tethylene dichloride.