Answer to Question #269028 in General Chemistry for scienceboiKian

Question #269028

explain how the strongest type of intermolecular force in liquid HF arises


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2021-11-23T01:26:02-0500

The fairly positive hydrogen on one HF molecule will be attracted to one of these lone pairs on a nearby HF molecule. This is a hydrogen bond. Hydrogen bonds are attractions between a δ+ hydrogen on one molecule and a lone pair on a very electronegative atom (N, O or F) on another molecule.


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