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What allows water molecules to dissociate ionic bonds and or to form hydrogen bonds?
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Water molecules can dissolve ionic compounds and form hydrogen bonds because of their high polarity and lone-pair electrons on the oxygen atom.
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Water molecules are bonded to other water molecules because of the presence of what bonds?
Hydrogen bonds.
What type of chemical bond holds the bases of the two strands of Dna together?
Hydrogen bonds are one of the weakest bonds, and aren't even true bonding of molecules, but rather a magnetic attraction between them. This particular bond is what allows the base pairs of DNA to properly link, as Adenine and thymine bond, and cytosine and guanine bond, but neither of these pairs bonds with elements from the other pair in this way.
What weak fleeting bonds are adjacent water molecules attracted to?
hydrogen
Describe the biological significance of the cohesiveness of water?
Well, one really big and well known reason is that it allows water to be transported through plants. The sun exaporates water and cohesion allows the water to be sucked up to the leaves from the bottom even with gravity pulling down on it because of the constantly reformed hydrogen bonds.
What are water's intermolecular bonds?
Water has two main bonds: hydrogen bonds between other water molecules, and a covalent bond between hydrogen and oxygen.
What does breaking hydrogen bonds do?
Breaking hydrogen bonds allows the water molecules to escape from the liquid by vaporization, either by boiling or by evaporation.
What types of bonds allow different water molecules to be attracted to one another and allows capillary action to occur?
These are hydrogen bonds between water molecules.
How do bonds form between water molecules?
The bond between water molecules is known as a hydrogen bond.
What determines the cohesiveness of water molecules?
Hydrogen bonds
What type of bonds hold separate water molecules together?
Hydrogen bonds hold water molecules to each other. They're the strongest of the Van der Waal's forces.
What distinguishes hydrogen bonds from covalent bonds?
Hydrogen bonds are betweem molecules and are weak forces.
How do water molecules form bonds?
hydrogen bonds
Can water form hydrogen bonds form with itself?
Intermolecular bonds of water molecules are hydrogen bonds.
Which force help water molecules stick together?
hydrogen bonds
What is the importance of hydrogen bonds?
allows water molecules to stick together creating cohesion
What is the most significant force that attracts water molecules to each other?
Hydrogen bonding.
What molecule form hydrogen bonds?
Hydrogen bonds are formed within molecules. In chemistry, they are the strongest of the 3 types of bonds (London Dispersion, Dipole-Dipole, and Hydrogen Bonding). Molecules that have hydrogen bonds have to have bonds between hydrogen and nitrogen or hydrogen and oxygen or hydrogen and fluorine (N-H, O-H, or F-H).
