The issue of solvents and solutes in solutions
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Everyone, I encountered a problem today: when trying to calculate how much heat is needed to raise the temperature of a solution, someone told me that the solute and the solvent in the solution do not rise to the same temperature. In other words, in a methanol-water solution, both methanol and water can reach different temperatures. This really confused me; isn’t a solution a single entity? I even started to doubt my own understanding.
That guy is talking nonsense. The temperatures of the different components in the solution should be the same
You might ask him to explain what this “equilibrium” means when a mixture system reaches equilibrium.
Ignore him and do as you think is right.