What Was One of the Differences Between British and Continental

question 116

Multiple Choice

What was one of the differences between British and Continental industrialization?

• A)The government played a larger role in British industrialization.
• B)Britain relied upon railroads while Continental nations primarily made use of rivers and canals.
• C)The government played a larger role in Continental industrialization.
• D)Continental industrialization relied more upon textile manufacturing than did Britain.
• E)Continental industrialization began much earlier than British industrialization.

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Definitions:

Hydrogen Bonds

Weak bonds between partially positive hydrogen atoms and partially negative atoms, such as oxygen or nitrogen, important in the structure of water and biological molecules.

Cohesiveness

The characteristic of molecules or particles sticking together in a mass, important in various physical and biological processes.

Ionic Bonds

A chemical bond formed between two ions with opposite charges through the transfer of one or more electrons from one atom to another.

Polar Covalent Bonds

A type of chemical bond where two atoms share a pair of electrons, but the electrons are not shared equally, leading to a distribution of charge.