Von Babo's law (sometimes styled Babo's law) is a experimentally determined

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formulated by German

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Lambert Heinrich von Babo Lambert Heinrich Joseph Anton Konrad Freiherr von Babo (November 25, 1818 – April 15, 1899) was a German chemist. Life Babo was the son of the agronomist Lambert Joseph von Babo and his first wife Karoline Ehrmann. The oenologist August Wilhe ...

in 1857. It states that the

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of solution decreases according to the concentration of solute.Perman, Edgar Philip; Lovett, Trevor. Vapour pressure and heat of dilution of aqueous solutions. ''

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'', 1926, 22, 1-19 The law is related to other laws concerning the vapor pressure of solutions, such as

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and Raoults Law.

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