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Properties of Water

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Why does water have higher boiling point than alcohol? At what temperature in kelvin, it can be change into solid state and into vapours?

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Water has higher boiling point than alcohol because the extent of hydrogen bonding is stronger in water than in alcohol .
Moreover we know that water freezes into ice at 273 k and changes into vapour states at 373 K.

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