Why are intermolecular HCl molecules among them not considered hydrogen bonds?

[kashiark]

A hydrogen bond is the attractive force between one electronegative atom and a hydrogen covalently bonded to another electronegative atom. Doesn't this apply to hydrochloric acid?

 

[Wax]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_bond
It results from a dipole-dipole force with a hydrogen atom bonded to nitrogen, oxygen or fluorine.

Studying general chemistry? That statement was from wiki so basically, it's got to involve one of those elements.

 

[cosmo123]

Youd expect it to because Cl is pretty electronegative, but chlorine is also a very large molecule, so it basically can't get close enough to the hydrogens to cause any particularly strong dipole, and the hydrogen has a high charge density so it deformes the large Cl into a fairly covelant bond.