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What are characteristics of hydrogen bonds?
Hydrogen bonding between molecules occurs between water molecules. These are types of dipole-dipole interactions. Hydrogen bonds between hydrogens eg H2 are covalent as are the bonds between hydrogen...
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Are Hydrogen bonds are ionic bonds?
From the Wikipedia article: Hydrogen Bond, "A hydrogen bond is the attractive interaction of a hydrogen atom with an electronegative atom, such as nitrogen, oxygen or fluorine, that comes from...
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Why is a hydrogen bond not a true bond?
Hydrogen bond is not a true bond because in it no bonding takes place i.e. overlapping of orbitals takes place(no sigma or pie bond formation).It is just a weak interaction between hydrogen and a...
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What type of bond is hydrogen to hydrogen?
A bond between two non-metals is generally going to be a covalent bond due to the affinity to electrons and the need to "pick them up." Molecular hydrogen is a good example and the hydrogens are...
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Hydrogen bonds are what kind of bonds?
strong polar attractions between molecules involving h, f, o, and n