Which would cause a gas to deviate most significantly from ideal gas behavior?
a. non polar bonds
b. london forces
c. hydrogen bonds
d. metallic bonds

Question

Which would cause a gas to deviate most significantly from ideal gas behavior?
a. non polar bonds
b. london forces
c. hydrogen bonds
d. metallic bonds

jfraser · Answer

Ideal gases don't interact with each other, so anything that changes that behavior the most will influence the gas the most. Which of those is the strongest attraction between neighboring molecules?

anonymous · Answer

@JFraser I ended up going with hydrogen bonds which was correct. I was just confused as to whether the answer would be hydrogen bonds or metallic bonds. Metallic bonds are stronger than hydrogen bonds, but I didn't know if intramolecular forces cause gases to deviate from ideal behavior.

jfraser · Answer

yes, but metallic bonds really only exist between the metal atoms of a solid or liquid, because the atoms are so close together. Metallic bonds can't act on gas atoms, because the $distance$ between atoms of a gas is so large

anonymous · Answer

Alright. Thanks for clearing everything up JFraser.