Q.

Given below are two statements :                            [2025]

Statement I : Wet cotton clothes made of cellulose-based carbohydrate takes comparatively longer time to get dried than wet nylon polymer-based clothes.

Statement II : Intermolecular hydrogen bonding with water molecule is more in nylon-based clothes than in the case of cotton clothes.

In the light of above statements, choose the Correct answer from the options given below

1 Statement I is false but Statement II is true.  
2 Statement I is true but Statement II is false.  
3 Both Statement I and Statement II are true.  
4 Both Statement I and Statement II are false.  

Ans.

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Cellulose has more number of OH bonds, hence more hydrogen bonding with water and takes more time to dry.