Students' understanding of boiling points and intermolecular forces

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 265-272

  Schmidt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Kaufmann, Birgit ^a   Treagust, David F ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternative concepts; Boiling; Evaporation; Hydrogen bonds; Intermolecular attraction; Intermolecular forces; Misconceptions; Van der Waals forces; Written test

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950254526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b920829c     Document Type: Article

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