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Properties of Water

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Why is the boiling point of water higher than the boiling point of chlorine?

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Hydrogen Bonding.
Explanation:
Water has H bonded to electronegative O, which results in a permanent dipole moment. A lot of energy is needed to disrupt the hydrogen bonding between water molecules as compared to the instantaneous dipole interactions among chlorine molecules.

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