Three straight lines and one curve
Above every liquid sits a vapour, and three laws tell you how much.
Raoult's law, — P equals x P-nought. is the vapour pressure of the solvent above the solution, (say “P-nought”) is the vapour pressure of the pure solvent at that temperature, and is the mole fraction of the SOLVENT — not the solute. That is the structural trap of this lesson, and it is worth saying twice: Raoult reads the solvent's fraction, because the solvent is what evaporates. Dissolve something non-volatile and , so always falls below . That drop is why the boiling point had to climb in the last lesson.
Henry's law, , runs the other direction: a gas dissolving INTO a liquid. is the dissolved concentration in mol/m³, is that gas's partial pressure above the liquid in pascals, and is the Henry solubility constant in mol/(m³·Pa) — 1.3 × 10⁻⁵ for oxygen in water at 25 °C, 3.3 × 10⁻⁴ for carbon dioxide, which is precisely why a bottle fizzes when you release the pressure above it. Note the pascals: is quoted per Pa, so kilopascals must be converted before they go in.
The curve is Clausius–Clapeyron, two-point form: . and are the pure liquid's vapour pressures at absolute temperatures and — subscripts back to naming two STATES of one liquid — and is its molar enthalpy of vaporisation in J/mol, with . Vapour pressure climbs exponentially with temperature, which is why the plot that straightens it is against , and why water boils at 71 °C on top of Everest. Two units to guard: in joules to match R, and every T in kelvin, because a reciprocal temperature is meaningless from any other zero.