You start with a 20ml mixture of two compounds. After distillation you end up with 10ml of distillate 1 and 8.4ml of distillate 2. What is the relative volume percent of each compound in the pre-distilled mixture?
(Do I just do: volume percent of mixture1=10/20 and volume percent of mixture 2=8.4/20, or is it more complicated than that? And since the two don't add up to 20ml, what happened to the rest of the mixture?)
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ADD sum water
What do you mean? It doesn't have any information about the water added? So is the percent volume 10/20 and 8.4/20, or do I need water for that too? I'm sorry but you've confused me more than I already am.
Volumes are not additive.
Okay, so then the volume percent is 10/20 and 8.4/20?