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Hydrogen bonding between water molecules is neither covalent nor ionic. It is a weak electrostatic attraction between the oxygen atom of one water molecule and a hydrogen atom of another water molecule. There is no sharing or transfer of electrons between the molecules.

There are the hydrogen - oxygen bonds of individual atoms in the water molecule, which are of course covalent. But in addition there are hydrogen bonds between atoms of adjacent molecules which form a hydrogen bond. This is a weak type of bond - merely the positive nature of the hydrogen atom (who's electron is busy in its covalent bond to an oxygen atom of its molecule), being attracted to the negative nature of (one of) the two filled valance orbitals on the oxygen atom of a near-by molecule. Similar such bonds between molecules that don't contain hydrogen are simply referred to as London forces.

Please refer to the related link below. The symbol that looks like a lower case "d" is a delta symbol and means partial. So "d+" means partial positive charge and "d-" means partial negative charge.

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There are covalent bonds within a water molecule and hydrogen bonds between water molecules.

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