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Consider a mixture of several gases of identical masses. Will all the mass fractions be identical? How about the mole fractions?
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The mass fraction is the mass of an individual component divided by the total mass of the mixture. The mole fraction is the number of moles of a component divided by the total number of moles in the mixture. Show more…
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