Try it on paper first. A hint, the key idea and the worked solution are here when you need them.
Ethanol has a molar enthalpy of vaporisation of at its boiling point of . Use . A flask holds of ethanol at . Find the amount of ethanol and the heat needed to boil it all away. Then compare the heat per mole with the O-H bond energy of and say what the comparison tells you.
Hydrogen bonding raises the boiling point. Branching lowers it among isomers. Mass of a component volume density. Mole fraction of A . Energy to vaporise .
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Work it out on paper first. It is fine to get stuck or make a mistake: that is how we learn. When you are ready, go through the solution one step at a time, and check each step against your own.
Given. , .
Step 1. Moles. .
Step 2. Heat. .
Step 3. Comparison. .
Check. Boiling does not break the covalent O-H bonds, which would cost . It overcomes the weaker attractions between molecules, mainly the hydrogen bonds. The small percentage shows how much weaker those attractions are.
Answer: , and .
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