Re: Re: Question about Hydrogen Bonds?

Barry <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:12:29 +0100

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Hello Anna,

Friday, April 26, 2002, 8:51:49 PM, you wrote:

> --- In folding-at-home@y..., "ana78casta" <ana78casta@y...> wrote:
>> During folding hydrogen bonds occur everytime a hydrogen atom 
>> covalently bonds to or touches either a F, O, or N atom.

Nope - Hydrogen Bonds are a purely electrostatic attraction, no actual
*bond* exists in reality. That doesn't make them important though -
without that, life as we know it couldn't exist !!

Covalent bonds do involve a sharing of electrons but that's not what's
going on here at all < lol >

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 Barry                            mailto:[email protected]