In a gaseous or liquid solution, is the the volume of the solvent greater to or less than the volume of the solute?

Answer 1

In liquid solution, the volume of the solvent should be much greater than the volume of the solute.

A liquid solvent can typically solvate bulk quantities of solute WITHOUT the volume of the solution changing too much from that of the parent solvent.

In gaseous solution, i.e. a mixture of two gases, the volume of solvent gas should be precisely the same as the volume of the solute gas. #"Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures"# assures us that in a gaseous mixture, the partial pressure of each component gas is the same as the pressure it would exert if it alone occupied the container.

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Answer 2

Peyton Adams

The volume of the solvent is generally greater than the volume of the solute in a gaseous or liquid solution.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.