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  • Increase in kinetic energy can overcome intermolecular forces of attraction. How will the viscosity of liquid be affected by the increase in temperature?Option:

Increase in kinetic energy can overcome intermolecular forces of attraction. How will the viscosity of liquid be affected by the increase in temperature?

Option: 1

No effect


Option: 2

Decrease


Option: 3

Increase


Option: 4

Nothing can be predicted


Answers (1)

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Effect of Temperature on Viscosity

On the increasing temperature, viscosity decreases as the average thermal energy of molecules increase hence the effect of intermolecular attraction forces decreases.
It can be shown by the Arrhenius equation as follows:
\mathrm{\eta=A e^{E_{a}/R T}}
Here T = Temperature, R = Universal gas constant,  Ea = Activation energy.

 

With the increase in kinetic energy, intermolecular forces of attraction decrease. Thus, due to this decrease, the viscosity also decreases.
Therefore, Option(2) is correct

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