Question

There are _________ possible type of attractive forces.

(a) 4

(b) 5

(c) 6

(d) 2

This question was posed to me in examination.

Enquiry is from Interparticle Force in a Soil Mass topic in chapter Soil Structure and Clay Minerology of Geotechnical Engineering I

Answer 1

Right answer is (c) 6

Best explanation: There are 6 types of attractive forces.

i) vanderwaal’s London force

ii) hydrogen

iii) bond, cationic linkage

iv) di-pole cationic linkage

v) water dipole linkage

vi) ionic bond.