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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 such as CO OC CO instead of CO CO CO. If such disordered 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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