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Standard XII
Chemistry
Properties of Water
Why does wate...
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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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Solution
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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