Hydrogen sulfide surprises as it's discovered to have hydrogen bonds

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Nobel laureate Linus Pauling was wrong – H2S does form hydrogen bonds after all

Hydrogen sulfide forms hydrogen bonds, scientists have found. Their discovery disproves 1954 Nobel laureate Linus Pauling’s belief that, in its solid state, H2S is fundamentally different from H2O. In his influential textbook, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, Pauling wrote that ice is structured by hydrogen bonds whereas solid hydrogen sulfide’s structure is controlled by…