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Give reasons for the following in one or two sentences: "Dimethyl amine is a stronger base than trimethyl amine" in `H_2 O`.

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Due to steric hinderance in trimethyl amine, the availability for donation of lone pair of electron by N-atom decreases, inspite of more +I (inductive) effect of `-CH_(3)` group.
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