hydrogen bond

English

Noun

hydrogen bond (plural hydrogen bonds)

1. (physical chemistry) A weak bond in which a hydrogen atom in one molecule is attracted to an electronegative atom (usually nitrogen or oxygen) in the same or different molecule.

Hypernyms

• intermolecular force

Translations

weak bond

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氢键 (zh) (qīngjiàn), 氫鍵／氢键 (zh) (qīngjiàn)

• Czech: vodíkový můstek m
• Finnish: vetysidos (fi)
• Hindi: उदजन बंध (udjan bandh)
• Hungarian: hidrogénkötés (hu)
• Icelandic: vetnistengi n, vatnsefnistengi n, vetnistengsl n pl
• Korean: 수소결합(水素結合) (ko) (susogyeolhap)
• Malay: ikatan hidrogen
• Portuguese: ponte de hidrogénio f (Portugal), ponte de hidrogênio f (Brazil)
• Romanian: legătură de hidrogen f
• Swedish: vätebindning (sv) c

Verb

hydrogen bond (third-person singular simple present hydrogen bonds, present participle hydrogen bonding, simple past and past participle hydrogen bonded)

1. (physical chemistry) To bond to another species by means of hydrogen bonds. E.g. Water hydrogen bonds with itself.

See also

• covalent bond
• ionic bond