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Which of the following is least intermolecular spacing?

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Water
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Steam
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Ice
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All of them
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Solution

The correct option is A Water
Liquid water has less molecular space than ice and is therefore denser. That’s why ice floats.In liquid water, the molecules tend to bond together since one “end” of the molecule is slightly more positive than the other. Ice, one the other hand, is crystalline in nature and the molecules are spaced farther apart.
Hence option A is correct.

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