As soon as you are injected into your host’s bloodstream, you feel as though you are being pulled apart. Some large, attractive forces are pulling at your legs from different directions! You look about but can see only water molecules. After a moment’s thought, you record that these forces must be the __3__ that are easily formed and easily broken in water.
HYDROGEN FORCES are easily formed and easily broken in water molecules. A hydrogen bond is a type of intermolecular force that forms a dipole-dipole attraction.
A hydrogen bond is a type of attraction between an electronegative atom (for example, an oxygen atom) and a hydrogen (H) atom.
A hydrogen bond is a type of dipole-dipole interaction, and thereby it is not considered to be a true chemical bond.
In an aqueous solution, the hydrogen (H) atoms of a water (H2O) molecule are attracted towards other nearby oxygen (O) atoms of surrounding H2O molecules.
