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Does breaking a hydrogen bond take or release energy?

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The bottom line is that both endothermic and exothermic reactions involve the breaking of bonds, and both, therefore, require energy to get started.
It makes sense that breaking bonds always takes energy. A chemical bond holds two atoms together.

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