How does a hydrogen bond compare to a covalent bond?

Answer 1

The short answer, without too much research or effort on my part, is that hydrogen bonds are weaker. The are due to the attraction of hydrogen to other elements (such as oxygen) that have lone pairs swimming around. Covalent bonds are due to electronic effects, and as such are stronger.

Answer 2

Hydrogen bonds are electrostatic attractions between a hydrogen atom, bonded to a more electronegative atom of one molecule AND a more electronegative atom of another molecule, but there is no sharing of electrons. In covalent bonding, atoms share electrons to form molecules.

Answer 3

Hydrogen bonds are the weakest, covalent bonds are the second strongest, and ionic bonds are the strongest.

Hydrogen bonds are intermolecular bonds like the bonds that hold the DNA's helixes together, ionic bonds are very strong since they are held together by ions, but covalent bonds share electrons and can be quite easily "pulled" apart.

Answer 4

Covalent bonding is the sharing of electrons, generally between 2 atoms and involving 2 electrons.

A hydrogen bond is electrostatic attraction between the H atom covalently bonded to a very electronegative atom such as O or F and another O or F atom in (typically) another molecule. For example in the case of water a hydrogen covalently bonded to an O ( with a small positive charge due to the difference in electronegativity between O and H) is attracted to the oxygen on another water molecule (which has a small negative charge due to the difference in electronegativity between O and H)

Answer 5

Hydrogen bonds form only between hydrogen and oxygen, nitrogen, or fluorine. It is essentially a weak "bond" and is electrostatic in nature. Ionic bonds are when two atoms bond that have a great difference in electronegativity, and are much stronger. Covalent bonds form between two atoms that have a small difference in electronegativity, involve the sharing of electrons and are much stronger.

Answer 6

covalent bond is stronger than Hydrogen bond.

Answer 7

The hydrogen bonds are more easily broken than the covalent bonds.

Answer 8

Hydrogen bonds are weaker than covalent bonds and are of electrostatic attraction nature.

Answer 9

no