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Explain why water has a higher boiling point than carbon iv oxide and the two are simple molecular structures

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Because H2O molecules make Hydrogen bounding and that's the first and strongest bound between molecules of a structure... So they stick together and don't let each other get evaporated...

U need lotsa energy to turn them into Gas shape

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