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Why a Hydrogen Bond Is Not a Covalent Bond
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A hydrogen bond is an intermolecular attraction, only five to ten percent as strong as the covalent bond its name evokes.
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Boiling every hydrogen bond out of liquid water leaves each molecule intact as H2O — no O-H bond breaks.
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The name borrows "bond" from covalent bonding, but the two differ sharply in strength, the error Chem 1367 names.
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