From: NFetter <NFetter@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 17:51:52 EDT
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
Subject: Re: Re: Re: re Specific Heat
Hi Steve,
The reason that the mixture shrinks in volume when ethanol is added to water
is our old friend hydrogen bonds! The OH group on EtOH hydrogen bonds even
stronger to water molecules than EtOH does to itself, thus the density of the
mixture increases.
Neil Fetter