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A property that must decrease when a gas condenses into a liquid is:

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standard voltaic potential
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entropy
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enthalpy
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reaction rate
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Solution

The correct option is A entropy
Entropy, S, is the measure of the amount of disorder in a molecular system. When a gas condenses into a liquid, the molecules become more organized, so the entropy of the system decreases.

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