Lesson 12 · about 20 minutes
Molecules that stick together
Why oil and water stay apart, and ethanol boils far above propane.
You will learn
- The pulls between molecules, and how they set boiling points
- What a hydrogen bond is, and why water boils at 100 °C
- Why oil and water separate, and what dissolves in what
- Why ice floats, and how hydrogen bonds hold DNA's base pairs together