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Question
Explain the following briefly.
Pure water does not conduct electricity, but on adding sodium chloride to it, it starts conducting electricity.
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Solution
Pure water does not conduct electricity because it has a polar covalent molecule hence does not have ions in it which can conduct electricity.
On adding sodium chloride to pure water, sodium chloride breaks apart into sodium and chloride ions because water being polar decreases the strong forces of attraction among sodium and chloride ions. Now, pure water has ions present in it which can conduct electricity.
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