Given below are two statements:\ Statement I: Wet cotton clothes made of cellulose based carbohydra

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Given below are two statements:\ 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:\

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(a) : Wet cotton clothes takes longer time to dry because they are hydrophilic while nylon is hydrophobic.\ Intermolecular hydrogen bonding with water molecule is more in cotton based clothes.\