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Perfect Crystals of Carbon Monoxide (CO) Are Difficult to Prepare

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Perfect crystals of carbon monoxide (CO) are difficult to prepare because the very small dipole moment allows a few molecules to align in a pattern like CO OC CO instead of CO CO CO. If such crystals were cooled to 0 K, what would be the value of their absolute entropy?


A) > 0
B) = 0
C) < 0
D) > 0, = 0, or < 0, depending on how carefully it was cooled
E) > 0 or = 0, depending on how carefully it was cooled

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