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Oxygen & ozone are gases at standard temperature. Their molar entropies are in the sequence `O_(2) lt O_(3).` Using molecular properties , explain why ozone is more disordered than oxygen.

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Ozone has three atoms per molecule, whereas `O_(2)` has only two.
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