Why Doesn't Hydrogen Bonding Occur Through Skin Contact?

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if the human skin consists of hydrogen, then why does not happen hydrogen bond through contact with something or with another person?
 
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DrClaude said:
What are the conditions necessary to form a hydrogen bond? How strong are hydrogen bonds?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_bond
hydrogen bonds require an electronegative atom such as oxygen, but it also makes up our skin, why does a hydrogen bond not occur?
 
Philipsmett said:
why does a hydrogen bond not occur?

Why do you think it doesn't?
 
Borek said:
Why do you think it doesn't?

I do not find any experiment where this process is confirmed.
 
Philipsmett said:
I do not find any experiment where this process is confirmed.

Can you think how such experiment would be done? Can you plan one?
 
Philipsmett said:
if the human skin consists of hydrogen, then why does not happen hydrogen bond through contact with something or with another person?
DrClaude said:
How strong are hydrogen bonds?
Why don't apple fall towards us when we also have gravity?
When I jump and fall down, why don't the Earth shake?
Basiclly the same thing.