How do you determine the properties of water based on its hydrogen bonding?
I don’t quite understand the question but the hydrogen bonding does make water have ‘special’ properties such as boiling points and densities. Will leave the rest up for you to research but hope that helps. (hint: compare with other similar formula) Same as e-mail: I’ve been reading the question again but I am still unsure what exactly what the proffesor asks but I think the question is asking what special properties arise from the hydrogen bonds. So if I was answering it myself I would talk about the following: 1. structure of ice: normally solids have higher densities than liquids. However ice floats on water. This is due to hydrogen bonding. 2. when the boiling point of group VI hydrides are compared water has an anomalous high boiling point (compared to H2S, H2Se, H2Te). Again this is caused by the hydrogen bonds. Maybe the proffesor wants you to deduce these facts from basic theories? Anyway hope the above helps and obviously do elaborate on the above points. I don’t know a lot of
