The Different Types of Intermolecular Forces

A special type of dipole moment bonding is a hydrogen bonding, which is basically just the strongest kind of intermolecular force. If you're holding hands with two people and both people yank on you equally hard at the same time, you're not going to go anywhere. That is what it means when you have polar bonds, but they cancel each other out to make a non-polar molecule. So if you had just F2, a fluorine molecule, it's only made up of one bond. But one bond is not polar and neither is the molecule.

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