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Answer the following with relevant reason.
The boiling points of noble gases' increase with increase in atomic number.

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van der Waals forces of attraction among molecules increase with the increase of atomic masses.

Thus, higher energy is required to separate these molecules to get gaseous state. Hence, the boiling points increase with increase of atomic masses.

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