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Just a question about intermolecular forces. My textbook says that only Van der Waals forces are present, but in group 6 the molecules contain polar bonds which are also distributed unevenly due to lone pairs - so wouldn’t permanent dipole - dipole forces also be present?
Or is the textbook just using “Van der Waals” to describe both?
Ty!
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Just a question about intermolecular forces. My textbook says that only Van der Waals forces are present, but in group 6 the molecules contain polar bonds which are also distributed unevenly due to lone pairs - so wouldn’t permanent dipole - dipole forces also be present?
Or is the textbook just using “Van der Waals” to describe both?
Ty!
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Yh so in an exam dipole-dipole forces are accepted as well as van der Waals. Depending on the molecule, it can be polar and have dipole-dipole along with van der Waals. I think what the textbook means is that all molecules are connected with van der Waals because that is one of the properties of that force.
Hope that made some sense
Hope that made some sense
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Yh so in an exam dipole-dipole forces are accepted as well as van der Waals. Depending on the molecule, it can be polar and have dipole-dipole along with van der Waals. I think what the textbook means is that all molecules are connected with van der Waals because that is one of the properties of that force.
Hope that made some sense
Yh so in an exam dipole-dipole forces are accepted as well as van der Waals. Depending on the molecule, it can be polar and have dipole-dipole along with van der Waals. I think what the textbook means is that all molecules are connected with van der Waals because that is one of the properties of that force.
Hope that made some sense
I get all of them will have VDWs forces, but in a exam when you’re explaining why the boiling point of say water is higher than the other hydrides of elements in the same group, would you talk about how the other only have dipole - dipole forces (cos boiling point is only affected by the strongest type of intermolecular force between the molecules).
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(Original post by Mavs04)
Yep thank you!
I get all of them will have VDWs forces, but in a exam when you’re explaining why the boiling point of say water is higher than the other hydrides of elements in the same group, would you talk about how the other only have dipole - dipole forces (cos boiling point is only affected by the strongest type of intermolecular force between the molecules).
Yep thank you!
I get all of them will have VDWs forces, but in a exam when you’re explaining why the boiling point of say water is higher than the other hydrides of elements in the same group, would you talk about how the other only have dipole - dipole forces (cos boiling point is only affected by the strongest type of intermolecular force between the molecules).
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They use Van der Waal's forces as an umbrella term, to mean induced dipole-dipole and permanent dipole-dipole forces
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