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20 October, 03:02

Given that ammonia is a gas at room temperature, what can you infer about the relative strengths of the intermolecular forces between ammonia molecules and between water molecules

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  1. 20 October, 04:23
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    The answer to the question is;

    The inter-molecular forces of water are stronger than those of hydrogen.

    Explanation:

    Ammonia is a compressible gas at room temperature with molecules free to move about and so fill up the volume of the container in which it is placed due to the weaker inter-molecular Van der Waals forces such as Keesom, Debye and London dispersion forces holding the particles of ammonia together in a given volume of the compound.

    The inter-molecular forces between water molecules is hydrogen binding and dipole moments due to the strongly electronegative oxygen and hydrogen which tends to move the electrons towards the oxygen creating a charge imbalance that causes the hydrogen surrounding the water molecule to aggregate to neutralize the the charge imbalance forming the bases for the strong hydrogen bonds.

    Therefore water is a liquid at room temperature while ammonia is a gas due to the difference in strength of their inter-molecular forces.
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