{"id":585,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T20:47:14","slug":"hydrogen-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen Bonds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The fact that the oxygen atom of a water molecule is negatively charged and the hydrogen atom is positively charged, means that hydrogen atoms of one water molecule attract oxygen atoms of its neighbor, etc. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Opposites attract<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This electrostatic attraction is called a <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">hydrogen bond<\/span>. This bond is important in determining the many properties of water, such an important liquid for living things. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The ions in a water molecule can also form this type of bond with ions of other atoms. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Hydrogen bonds can occur within and between other molecules, such as the two strands of a <a href=\"?p=597\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">DNA<\/span><\/a> molecule that are held together by hydrogen bonds.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/hydrogen_bonding_in%20water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"203\" \/> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=589\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that the oxygen atom of a water molecule is negatively charged and the hydrogen atom is positively charged, means that hydrogen atoms of one water molecule attract oxygen atoms of its neighbor, etc. Opposites attract This electrostatic attraction is called a hydrogen bond. This bond is important in determining the many properties of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10282,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/10282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}