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Define hydrogen bond. Is it weaker or stronger than the van der Waals forces?

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A hydrogen bond is defined as an attractive force acting between the hydrogen attached to an electronegative atom of one molecule and an electronegative atom of a different molecule (may be of the same kind).
Due to a difference between electronegativities, the bond pair between hydrogen and the electronegative atom gets drifted far away form the hydrogen atoms. As a result, a hydrogen atom becomes electropositive with respect to the other atom and acquires a positive charge.
`4^(delta)-X^(delta-).......H^(delta+)-X^(delta-)........H^(delta+)-X^(delta-)`
The magnitude of H-bonding is maximum in the solid state and minimum in the gaseous state.
There are two types of H-bonds:
(i) Intermolecular H-bond e.g., HF, `H_(2)O` etc.
(ii) Intramolecular H-bond e.g., o-nitrophenol

Hydrogen bonds are stronger than Van der Walls forces since hydrogen bonds are regarded as an extreme form of dipole-dipole interaction.
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