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a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture with equal volumes of saturated liquid and saturated vapor has a quality of 0.5True or False

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A two-phase liquid–vapor mixture with equal volumes of saturated liquid and saturated vapor has a quality of 0.5: False.

In Science, a mixture can be defined as a combination of two (2) or more substances which are present in varied proportion (unfixed ratios). Additionally, a mixture can be visibly seen with our na-ked eyes and separated by physical means.

Generally speaking, the ratio of the mass of vapor to the total mass of the miaxture for a two-phase liquid-vapor mixture is typically referred to as its quality and denoted by the letter x. Mathematically, this can be modeled as follows;

Quality, x =
(m_(vapor))/(m_(liquid)\;+\;m_(vapor))

At saturated liquid and saturated vapor states, the value of x are equal to 0 and 1.0 resepctively. In this context, a vapor with the same volume as the liquid would have a smaller mass, which means x is less than 50%.

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