Trouton's rule does not apply to water because in the liquid, water molecules are held together by an extensive network of hydro

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Trouton's rule does not apply to water because in the liquid, water molecules are held together by an extensive network of hydro

gen bonds. provide a molecular interpretation for the observation that trouton's rule underestimates the value of the entropy of vaporization of water

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kiruha [24] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-02T19:30:55+03:00

kiruha [24]3 years ago

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the molecular interpretation is not suitable for the assumption that there are much more interactions in the intermolecular level

We must account for the breaking/creation of hydrogen bondings, which is not the scope of the equilibria made in trouton's analysis