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Give three reasons to justify that water is a liquid at room temperature.

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Water is a liquid at room temperature due to the following reasons-
  1. Water has not fixed shape but fixed volume. It takes the shape of the container.
  2. Water can flow easily, i.e., it is not rigid but a fluid.
  3. The tiny, weak hydrogen bonds which, hold water molecules together for small fractions of a second.

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