Explain, in terms of intermolecular forces, why ammonia has a higher boiling point than the other compounds in the ta

1 answer:

7 0

Answer is: ammonia has a higher boiling point because it has stronger intermolecular forces.

Intermolecular forces are the forces between molecules. The stronger are intermolecular forces, the higher is boiling point of compound, because more energy is needed to break interaction between molecules.
There are several types of intermolecular forces: hydrogen bonding, ion-induced dipole forces, ion-dipole forces andvan der Waals forces.

You might be interested in

Consider the balanced chemical equation that follows. You are asked to determine how many moles of water you can produce from 4.

matrenka [14]

Explanation:

According to law of conservation of mass, mass of the reactants is equal to the mass of products in a chemical equation. As mass can neither be created nor it can be destroyed but it can be transformed from one form to another.

As it is given that hydrogen and in excess oxygen is reacting that leads to the formation of water. Hence, the chemical reaction equation will be as follows.

$2H_{2}(g) + O_{2}(g) \rightarrow 2H_{2}O(l)$