GATE Chemical 2019 | Question: 5

Question

For a binary nonideal $A-B$ mixture exhibiting a minimum boiling azeotrope, the activity coefficients, $\gamma_{i} \left ( i=A, B \right )$, must satisfy

• A. $\gamma _{A}> 1,\gamma _{B}> 1$
• B. $\gamma _{A}< 1,\gamma _{B}> 1$
• C. $\gamma _{A}= 1,\gamma _{B}= 1$
• D. $\gamma _{A}< 1,\gamma _{B}< 1$