Question

Explain why when your skin is rubbed with ethanol, it becomes colder than when the same mass of water, with the same initial temparature, is used. In your answer, you should consider the intermolecular forces present in water and ethanol.

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Answer:

Here is yr answer mate....

As water is less volatile liquid than that of ethanol ,so ethanol absorbs heat from the surroundings in the form of latent heat of vaporisation and evaporates more readily than that of water.....

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