Question

Negative deviation is due to a total pressure less than the pressure obtained from Hendry’s law.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was posed to me in homework.

I would like to ask this question from Deviation from Idealities Concept in section Distillation of Mass Transfer

Answer 1

Right option is (b) False

To elaborate: Because the total pressure should be less than the pressure obtained from Rauolt’s law.