Chapter 16: Intermolecular Forces
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Sample Questions (University of Richmond, VA)
- Quantitative correlates of gaseous, liquid, and solid materials
- Viscosity, hardness, elasticity, density, compressibility,
thermal expansion, surface tension, diffusion
- Types of intermolecular forces
- Ion-ion
- Ion-dipole
- Dipole-dipole
- Dispersion (London forces; LDF)
- Hydrogen bonding
- Relative magnitudes of intermolecular forces and correlates
in physical properties
- Solubility and miscibility
- Solvation
- Hydrophilicity
- Hydrophobicity
- Phase Diagrams
- Selected goodies
- Bonding in metals, insulators, and semiconductors
- Detergents, micelles, lipid bilayers
- Molecular shape and boiling points
- Liquid crystals and LCD's
| force | approximate amgnitude
(KJ/mole) |
| chemical | covalent
ion-ion | 100-1000
100-1000 |
| intermolecular | ion-dipole
dipole-diople
Dispersion (London) |
1-70
.1-10
.1-10 |
| hydrogen bonds |
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10-40 |
Fritz London
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1910
"for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids"
Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals
the Netherlands
Amsterdam University
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1837 - 1923
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