<Tr> <Td> H S HF </Td> <Td> pyramidal </Td> <Td> 89 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> SO HF </Td> <Td> trigonal </Td> <Td> 142 </Td> </Tr> <P> In the book The Nature of the Chemical Bond, Linus Pauling credits T.S. Moore and T.F. Winmill with the first mention of the hydrogen bond, in 1912 . Moore and Winmill used the hydrogen bond to account for the fact that trimethylammonium hydroxide is a weaker base than tetramethylammonium hydroxide . The description of hydrogen bonding in its better - known setting, water, came some years later, in 1920, from Latimer and Rodebush . In that paper, Latimer and Rodebush cite work by a fellow scientist at their laboratory, Maurice Loyal Huggins, saying, "Mr. Huggins of this laboratory in some work as yet unpublished, has used the idea of a hydrogen kernel held between two atoms as a theory in regard to certain organic compounds ." </P> <P> The most ubiquitous and perhaps simplest example of a hydrogen bond is found between water molecules . In a discrete water molecule, there are two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom . Two molecules of water can form a hydrogen bond between them; the simplest case, when only two molecules are present, is called the water dimer and is often used as a model system . When more molecules are present, as is the case with liquid water, more bonds are possible because the oxygen of one water molecule has two lone pairs of electrons, each of which can form a hydrogen bond with a hydrogen on another water molecule . This can repeat such that every water molecule is H - bonded with up to four other molecules, as shown in the figure (two through its two lone pairs, and two through its two hydrogen atoms). Hydrogen bonding strongly affects the crystal structure of ice, helping to create an open hexagonal lattice . The density of ice is less than the density of water at the same temperature; thus, the solid phase of water floats on the liquid, unlike most other substances . </P>

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a hydrogen bond