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Which is having higher vapour pressure Alcohol or Glycerine?

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Which is having higher vapour pressure Alcohol or Glycerine?

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Sagar Saxena

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2 May 2012 01:13:45 IST

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As we know Stronger the forces between the molecules lower is the vapour pressure.
and here in glycerin it contains multiple OH groups which corresponds to stronger hydrogen bonding which wasn't that much effective in alcohol because it only has few OH groups.

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