Solutions Flashcards
Components
minimum number of independent species necessary to define the composition of all phases in a system
Phase diagram
Plot of pressure vs temperature
Phase boundary
Continuous line representing values at which equilibrium exists between 2 phases
Triple point
Point at which 3 phases coexist at equilibrium
What is different about water phase diagram?
Solid/Liquid line leans towards the y-axis.
Why is the water phase diagram different?
The solid/liquid line leans towards the y-axis due to being less dense in the solid phase than liquid phase. This is due to H bonding and oxygen repelling other oxygens
Degrees of Freedom
Number of factors which can be varied independently without altering the number of phases
Gibbs Phase Rule in condensed systems
P+F = C+1
Gibbs Phase Rule
P+F = C+2
Colligative Properties
4 physical properties affected in the same way by solutes, regardless of solute identity
What do Colligative Properties depend on?
Properties of solvent, concentration of dissolved substance and number of particles of dissolved substance in the solution
How are the colligative properties related?
Thermodynamically
What are the 4 main Colligative Properties?
Vapour Pressure lowering, Freezing point depression, boiling point elevation and osmotic pressure
Osmosis
The tendency of solvent molecules to pass through a membrane from a more dilute to a more concentrated solution.
Osmotic pressure
If a solution is separated from its solvent by a membrane then the excess pressure which has to be applied to prevent the flow of the solvent is the osmotic pressure
Osmotic pressure equation
Π = mRT
Semi-permeable membrane
Chemical potential of a solvent in solution is less than its chemical potential in a pure solvent. Solvent passes spontaneously into the solution to equalise the chemical potential on either side of the membrane
Reverse Osmosis
A pressure greater than the osmotic pressure is applied to the solution and forces the solvent through the membrane
Hydrostatic pressure
Pressure exerted by a column of aqueous solution
Iso-osmotic
2 solutions have the same osmotic pressure