How Do Bonds Behave in Liquids?

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I know solid materials are formed by chemical bonds. There are crystalized or amorphous, but the bonds are fixed. How about in liquids?

 

[Andy Resnick]

There are interatomic bonds in liquids as well, but the bond strength is of the same magnitude as thermal energy, leading to a very dynamic environment. Look up "hydrogen bonds" in the context of water, for example.

There's a few decent books about the liquid state out there, and a few others that discuss hydrodynamics as limiting behavior of dissipative systems with large numbers of degrees of freedom.