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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

which of the following is low boiling liquid
  1. HF
  2. HCl
  3. HBr
  4. HI

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of RoHaN
9 Years ago
HCl is having the lowest boiling point.
in HF there is H-bonding and in other van-der wall’s forces.since these forces depend on size thus HCl being the smallest molecule (in HCl,HBr,HI) it has least van der wall force therefore least boiling point.