Suppose you have two nonpolar molecules that are liquids at room temperature: hexane (C6H14) and heptane (C7H16). When these two compounds are mixed, would you expect their ΔHsolution to be a large positive number, a large negative number, or close to zero? Explain your reasoning. Both compounds are miscible with each other in all proportions. While making a homogenous solution with both compounds, is the entropy of the system increased, decreased, or close to zero when compared to the separate pure liquids?

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Suppose you have two nonpolar molecules that are liquids at room temperature: hexane (C6H14) and heptane (C7H16). When these two compounds are mixed, would you expect their ΔHsolution to be a large positive number, a large negative number, or close to zero? Explain your reasoning. Both compounds are miscible with each other in all proportions. While making a homogenous solution with both compounds, is the entropy of the system increased, decreased, or close to zero when compared to the separate pure liquids?

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Ideal solution: Those solution in which components of the solution have same type of interaction as they had before formation of solution i.e. in  pure form.

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