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  • Apr 17, 2014, 09:57 AM
    sabari rangan
    Condition for a compoun to be solid or liquid or gas at stp
    I know glycerol is liquid because of intermolecular hydrogen bonding . Likewise how to find for other compounds.
    I know the states of some compound at stp
    Nitrobenzene-liquid;
    Hexane - liquid;
    Sugar - solid;
    Benzoic acid - solid;
    Camphor - solid ;
    Anthracene - solid;
    But I don't know to explain why they are in this state;
    Please help in my high school syllabus they gave only this state of the compound but they did not gave the reason so provide me the reason in general
  • Apr 17, 2014, 07:40 PM
    ma0641
    Molecular weight, hydrogen bonding, covalent bonding etc. all figure in. Look at water MW 18, all hydrogen bonded. Now look at propane-MW44, a gas but now remove a hydrogen and add a hydroxyl and propanol is a liquid. Cyclic hydrocarbons are never a gas. Now take freons, very high MA but very little hydrogens and they are a gas. Anything with a hydroxyl will never be a gas. Keep reading your book and Google "What makes some chemicals a gas, liquid or solid"

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