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High boiling point of water may be attributed to –

Option: 1

Presence of intermolecular hydrogen bonding
 


Option: 2

Presence of intramolecular hydrogen bonding
 


Option: 3

High specific heat
 


Option: 4

None of the above


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Specific heat is the heat required to increase temperature of 1 unit mass of a substance by 1^{\circ} \mathrm{C}. High specific heat does not cause high boiling point.
Intramolecular hydrogen bonding is not present in water as there is only one electronegative atom in each molecule.
But hydrogen atoms exhibit strong intermolecular hydrogen bonding with the oxygen atom present in neighbor molecule. Due to these strong intermolecular hydrogen bonds, large amount of energy is required to break this hydrogen bonding.

Hence, water molecules will have high boiling point.

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