Why do substances that are solid at room temp have stronger attractive forces than liquids at room temp?

Question

liquids at room temp, which have stronger attractive forces than gases at room temp.

Answer 1

attraction is what keeps the atoms and molecules together.  Temperature is simply a measure of the amount of kinetic (movement)energy in the system.  The substance will stay solid if the energy of movement is insufficient to break the bonds holding the substance together.

A solid has a long term repeatable structure (generally speaking).  A liquid has only a short term structure-it keeps trying to make the structure extend further but the movement of the atoms keeps breaking the structure up.  A gas has essentially no structure, the molecules do not attract to each other sufficiently strongly to even maintain that structure for even the distance of a few molecules.

it is simply a question of energy-there is a war between the energy of movement (temperature) and the energy of staying together (attraction).

Answer 2

In solids ,the molecules are very close to each other while