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Mistake Master · AP Chemistry · Unit 3 · Step-Through Animation

Between, Not Within

You'll learnwhy bonds hold a molecule together while intermolecular forces hold separate molecules to each other.

Two water molecules sit on the stage with two lines drawn between atoms: one short and solid, one long and dashed. Only one of them is a bond, and the other one is the reason anything is ever a liquid. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · H2O · DISPERSION · DIPOLE–DIPOLE · HYDROGEN BONDING · v4

bonds act within · forces act between · only one of them breaks
Before you start
What you're looking at
Two water molecules, with a short solid line inside each one and a long dashed line reaching across the gap.
The question
Which line holds a molecule together, and which holds one molecule to the next?
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