VAPOR

PRESSURE
DEPRESSION
GROUP-4 SECTION: FERMAT
 VAPOR PRESSURE
DEPRESSION
The characteristic vapor pressure is that
all pure liquids are in equilibrium with the
liquid phase, whose partial pressure
depends on temperature as long as the
solvent itself does not have a significant
vapor pressure. Is rationalized by
presuming surface in place of solvent
particles, so not many solvent particles
can evaporate.

Such slowest are referred to as NON-

VOLATILE.
 The solution, however, has a
lower vapor pressure than the
pure solvent does the amount
of this lowering depends on the
fraction of solute particles.
This colligative property is
called vapor pressure
depression (or Lowering) the
actual vapor pressure given to
this cooperative feature.
 Volatile
substance
● readily transfer Non-volatile
into gaseous phase substance
● high vapor ● do not ready
pressure transfer into
● low boiling point gaseous
● weaker ● high boiling point
intermolecular ● low vapor pressure
attraction ● strong
intermolecular
 Volatile Non-volatile
substance substance
- Increases the - Does not add
vapor pressure of to the vapor
the solution or will pressure of the
easily evaporate solution
A liquid's boiling point rises when
another compound is added, hence a
solution has a higher boiling point
than a pure solvent. This increases a
pure solvent, like water, is combined
with a non-volatile solute, like salt.
The temperature of the solution is
different from that of the pure
solvent because it contains non-
volatile substances, which causes
the temperature to decrease. but in
contrast to the pure solvent, it has a
greater boiling point.
Given their relative concentrations, the
pure solvent has a higher vapor pressure
than solution.