In a previous work, an ideal fluid mixture is assumed to be a homogeneous linear and isotropic system that verifies the following conditions: (I) no interaction between molecules, (II) point-like molecules and (III) under fixed temperature and pressure conditions the number of molecules per unit volume is the same for both the individual components and the mixture. It was shown that for such ideal mixture the permittivity is the sum of the individual permittivities weighted with the mole fractions of the components. In this work it is shown that independently of the latter assumption the permittivity of the system can be expressed as the sum of the individual permittivities weighted with the volume fractions of the components. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.