Water molecules form hydrogen bonds between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms of different water molecules. This hydrogen bonding causes water molecules to self-associate into ordered arrays. Hydrogen bonding profoundly influences the physical properties of water, giving it a high viscosity, surface tension, and boiling point. Each water molecule on average forms hydrogen bonds with 3.5 other molecules through relatively weak and transient bonds. Hydrogen bonding also enables water to dissolve many organic biomolecules by allowing functional groups on those molecules to participate in hydrogen bonding.
Water molecules form hydrogen bonds between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms of different water molecules. This hydrogen bonding causes water molecules to self-associate into ordered arrays. Hydrogen bonding profoundly influences the physical properties of water, giving it a high viscosity, surface tension, and boiling point. Each water molecule on average forms hydrogen bonds with 3.5 other molecules through relatively weak and transient bonds. Hydrogen bonding also enables water to dissolve many organic biomolecules by allowing functional groups on those molecules to participate in hydrogen bonding.
Water molecules form hydrogen bonds between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms of different water molecules. This hydrogen bonding causes water molecules to self-associate into ordered arrays. Hydrogen bonding profoundly influences the physical properties of water, giving it a high viscosity, surface tension, and boiling point. Each water molecule on average forms hydrogen bonds with 3.5 other molecules through relatively weak and transient bonds. Hydrogen bonding also enables water to dissolve many organic biomolecules by allowing functional groups on those molecules to participate in hydrogen bonding.
Water molecules form hydrogen bonds between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms of different water molecules. This hydrogen bonding causes water molecules to self-associate into ordered arrays. Hydrogen bonding profoundly influences the physical properties of water, giving it a high viscosity, surface tension, and boiling point. Each water molecule on average forms hydrogen bonds with 3.5 other molecules through relatively weak and transient bonds. Hydrogen bonding also enables water to dissolve many organic biomolecules by allowing functional groups on those molecules to participate in hydrogen bonding.
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Water (h2O) Molecules Form Hydrogen Bonds
An unshielded hydrogen nucleus covalently bound to
an electron-withdrawing oxygen or nitrogen atom can interact with an unshared electron pair on another oxygen or nitrogen atom to form a hydrogen connection. Since water molecules contain both of these features, hydrogen bonding favors the self-association of water molecules into ordered arrays. Hydrogen bonding profoundly influences the physical properties of water and accounts for its exceptionally high viscosity, surface tension, and boiling point. On average, each molecule in liquid water associates through hydrogen bonds with 3.5 others. These bonds are both relatively weak and transient, with a half-life of about one microsecond. Rupture of a hydrogen bond in liquid requires only about 4.5 kcal/mol, less than 5% of the energy required to rupture a covalent OH (o-h) bond. Hydrogen bonding enables water to dissolve many organic biomolecules that contain functional group which can participate in hydrogen (H) bonding. The oxygen atoms of aldehydes, ketones, and amides provide pairs of electrons that can serve as hydrogen acceptors. Alcohols and amines can serve both as hydrogen acceptors and as donors of unshielded hydrogen atoms for formation of hydrogen bonds. It can make chemical substance called H2O.