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Although nitrogen and chlorine have very nearly same electronegativity yet nitrogen forms hydrogen bonding while chlorine does not. Why?

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Due to bigger size of Cl as compared to N, electron density per unit volume on N is higher than on Cl. As a result N can attract the H aotms of `H_(2)O` more strongly than Cl. Thus, N forms H-bonds but Cl does not.
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