Azeotropes are formed due to deviations from Raoult's law in liquid mixtures
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Azeotropes form as a direct consequence of significant positive or negative deviations from Raoult's law in non-ideal liquid mixtures.
Evidence for · 2
Experimental Evidence for Azeotrope Formation from Protic Ionic Liquids.
2018 · cited by 15
Paper 1 notes that protic ionic liquid mixtures show marked negative deviations from Raoult's law leading to azeotrope formation.
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Experimental Measurement and Thermodynamic Modelling of Vapor-Liquid Equilibria Correlations for Prediction Azeotropic Behavior and Fitting Multicomponent Mixtures Data
2018 · cited by 1
Paper 9 explains that departures from Raoult's law frequently manifest themselves in the formation of azeotropes with maximum or minimum boiling points.