Thanks a lot, this makes sense somewhat. Now suppose i have an osmosis set up. In one side I have salt water (0.5 M NaCl in 1L water) and on the other side I have 1L of pure water. To the side having salt water I add benzene. According to what I have studied, vapor pressure of salt water is...
Thanks for the answer Chestermiller. But I find it hard to believe that water can penetrate a liquid of lower density and then evaporate (establish equilibrium) to exert vapor pressure. How is this possible? Suppose I have 1 m of water on top of which i add 100 m of kerosene in a closed vessel...
So can it be concluded that by mixing kerosene and water at room temperature the change in entropy of the system is negative? (Vapor pressure of water is greater than vapor pressure of kerosene at 25 degree celsius)
When we mix water and kerosene, what is the vapor pressure of the mixture? Is it just that of kerosene, or an average of vapor pressure of both liquids? (Kerosene floats on top of water which is why I felt like asking this question)