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Offline CamiGurlRox

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Intermolecular Forces
« on: February 19, 2010, 04:03:12 PM »
Hello all. ^-^  Just looking for some help with AP Chemistry.  I'm having problems with intermolecular forces.

I have a worksheet I'm doing and we're to indicate the strongest IMF holding together the crystals for the chemical formula.

For example:  NH3 would be Hydrogen bonds...I think. 

On the worksheet, an entire list of compounds is presented and we have to choose the strongest IMF between London forces, Dipole-dipole attractions, hydrogen bonds, ionic bonds, and covalent bonds.

Maybe I'm doing this wrong...?  How do I determine the type simply off of formulas?

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Re: Intermolecular Forces
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2010, 02:35:38 AM »
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermolecular_force

Take a look at the table at the end of the page.
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