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Subject: How do you experimentally measure partial pressures in a mixture of gases?

Date: Wed Mar 8 02:22:41 2006
Posted by Gavin
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Area of science: Chemistry
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In a two component liquid / vapour system of volatile liquids that shows strong 
deviations from Raoult's Law it is easy to measure the TOTAL pressure of the 
system as a function of compostion by using a manometer, etc.  Is there any 
simple way to experimentally measure the PARTIAL pressure of each component in 
the mixture of vapours?  I am asking this because Raoult's Law deals with 
partial pressures and so I assume that it must be possible to actually measure 
them, but I can't think how this might be done.


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