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How Many Hydrogen Bonds Can Oxygen Form

Oxygen can form hydrogen bonds geometry? Or those who ask oxygen, can form hydrogen bonds geometry?

Oxygen also has a unique electronic structure. The outer layer has six electrons, and two pairs of lone pairs of electrons exist. The hydrogen bond forms a weak interaction between hydrogen and atoms with strong electronegativity, such as oxygen.

Oxygen can form both hydrogen bonds because of its lone pair of electrons. First, its own lone pair of electrons attracts and bonds with other hydrogen atoms; second, the hydrogen atom connected to oxygen can form hydrogen bonds with atoms with lone pairs of electrons elsewhere, such as nitrogen and oxygen.

Therefore, oxygen can form both hydrogen bonds, which is based on its electronic structure and bonding properties.