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Question
Give two reasons to justify that Water is a liquid at room temperature.
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Solution
Water is a liquid at room temperature due to the following characteristics:
- Water has fixed volume, but no fixed shape.
- Water flows freely.
Particles of water have large intermolecular spaces between them and intermolecular force of attraction between these particles is small. These characteristics facilitates water to behave like a liquid.
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