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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:58 pm    Post subject: phase diagrams Reply with quote
Does anything that exhibits hydrogen bonding have a negative slope like water for it's phase diagram?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
No, the negative slope of the solid-liquid phase boundary is not simply related to H bonding and is not present in all compounds that H bond. The slope reflects the fact that ice has a lower density than water, which is an unusual property for a material.
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