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Solutions and its Properties

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a mineral acid like sulphuric acid with water forms a non-ideal solution.Why?

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In ideal solution there are no forces acting between the constituent molecules.

However when mineral acids like, H₂SO₄ is added to water it dissociates into H⁺ and SO₄^2- , as water is a polar solvent it gets attracted to these species.
Due to these attractive forces, the solution becomes a non-ideal one.

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