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Lesson: Chapter 10 — Chemical Bonds

10.4. Intermolecular bonds 3 of 6

Question 3

If there were no intermolecular bonds between water molecules, what would water be like at room temperature?

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It would be a gas at room temperature. Water is a small, light molecule; only the attractions between its molecules hold it together as a liquid.

Removing an attraction cannot make a substance freeze — freezing needs molecules held more firmly, not less. Decomposition would require the covalent bonds inside the molecule to break, which is a different matter entirely.

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