In Understanding Why Ammonia (NH₃) Has a Higher Boiling Point

question 119

Multiple Choice

In understanding why ammonia (NH₃) has a higher boiling point than methane (CH₄) , which of the following would you consider to be unimportant?
I. dispersion forces
II. dipole-dipole forces
III. hydrogen bonding

• A) only I
• B) only II
• C) only III
• D) both II and III
• E) both I and III

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Quartile

A type of quantile which divides a rank-ordered data set into four equal parts.

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