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Two volatile and miscible liquids can be separated by fractional distillation into pure component’, is true under what condition?

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12 Years agoGrade upto college level
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12 Years ago
Hello Student,
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. If they form an ideal solution which obeys ‘Raoult’s Law and for which
∆Hmixing = 0 and ∆Vmixing = 0
Thus we can separate two volatile and miscible liquids by fractional distillation if, they should not form azeotropic solutions.

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