Question

Which property of the water molecule causes two water molecules to be attracted to each other?

polar bonds between H and O atoms
ionic bonding between water molecules
hydrogen bonds between H atoms
ionic bonding between O atoms

Answer 1

the first thing you must understand is that water is a polar molecule, and it's bent in its structure.

Answer 2

water is polar because the oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen.

now the property is called hydrogen bonding which has two characteristics:

1. a hydrogen must be covalently bonded to either an Oxygen, a Nitrogen, of Fluorine to act as a hydrogen bond donor.
2. the molecule must have a lone pair of electrons that can act as an hydrogen bond acceptor.

Answer 3

Now let's draw this out