9. Gasoline is a complex mixture, assume gasoline is a mixture of 2,2,4-trimethylpentane (an isomer of octane) and n-heptane, with the octane mole fraction being 87%. Please compute the chemical potential of the octane in gasoline relative to the octane in pure liquid, assume 25 °C The answer is

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9. Gasoline is a complex mixture, assume gasoline is a mixture of 2,2,4-trimethylpentane
(an isomer of octane) and n-heptane, with the octane mole fraction being 87%. Please
compute the chemical potential of the octane in gasoline relative to the octane in pure
liquid, assume 25 °C
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Transcribed Image Text:9. Gasoline is a complex mixture, assume gasoline is a mixture of 2,2,4-trimethylpentane (an isomer of octane) and n-heptane, with the octane mole fraction being 87%. Please compute the chemical potential of the octane in gasoline relative to the octane in pure liquid, assume 25 °C The answer is
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Given that there are two component mixed i.e isomer of octane and n-heptane x1 =87% =0.87 T =25 C =25 +273.15 =298.15K 

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