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why H20 a liquid and H2S a gas

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Water exists as aliquidat room temperature with a high boiling point. Sulphur is less electronegative than oxygen, and the S-H bond is much less polar than the O-H bond. Hence, there is no hydrogen bonding in hydrogen sulphide, and it exists as agasnormally with discreteH2Smolecules.

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