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Explain why water has a higher boiling point than hydrogen iodide.

Water has a greater boiling point than hydrogen iodide as water has hydrogen bonds, whereas iodine only has permenant dipole-dipole interactions. Hydrogen bonds are stronger than permenant dipole-dipole inte...
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What is Hund's rule?

Electrons occupy every orbital in each subshell once and then occupy the full orbital with both electrons
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What is the charge of a nucleus?

Neutral
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How do I work out what the ionic charge is for different elements in the periodic table?

The useful thing is that different elements have been grouped together on the periodic table so that it's easy to see which ones share something in common. Group 1 elements become 1+, Group 2 becomes 2+, Gro...
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How does the molecular structure of graphite relate to its properties?

Graphite is carbon-based, formed of multiple sheets of carbon atoms. The carbon atoms are bound to three neighbouring carbon atoms by covelent bonds, leaving a free electron which can conduct current through...
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