Why don’t they just stay separate? Begin to answer this question by using hydrogen as an example. Project the animation Covalent bond in hydrogen. Make sure students see that each hydrogen atom has 1 ...

Chemistry students the world over are familiar with covalent bonds and hydrogen bonds. Now a study has revealed a strange variety of bond that acts like a hybrid of the two. Its properties raise ...

Each water molecule is bound to four neighboring molecules by means of bridging hydrogen bonds, leading to an average of two bridges per molecule. In water, there are, on average, only 1.75 ...