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Question about most significant force between water and ethyl alcohol?

What are the most significant forces between solute and solvent in an aqueous ethyl alcohol (CH3CH2OH) solution?

-hydrogen bonding

-dispersion forces

-charge-dipole interactions

-charge-charge interactions

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago
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    Hydrogen bonding - the other options don't apply, except for dispersion forces, which are rather weaker than hydrogen bonds.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    H bonding.

    They both have a lot of H -- water is H2O and ethanol is C2H6O.

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