), we will see that the bonding force is extrinsic to the hypothetical bond, completely beyond the H-H region. As a matter of fact, some orbital, energy decomposition, and topographical quantum mechanical methods indicate that there may be a weak force binding the hydrogens, In this cage molecule, the confined internal hydrogens depict an ultra-short non-covalent interaction. Since it is in its optimal geometry, any intent to separate the hydrogens will require to employ a significant force, meaning that they have a chemical bond between them according to IUPAC's definition. However, if we release the tension brought by the cage, such as with a silane dimer (but still keeping the symmetry), the bond is utterly broken. I will leave another strawman fallacy for the reader to analyse: Adenine and thymine are a base pair that are bound through two H-bonds (N-H and O-H), which are undisputed chemical bonds, even if they are not covalent. If we break the N-H bond by a rotation (lower part of Fig. ), the O-H bond is elongated to 2.02 Å. This implies that without the external force of the N-H bond the O-H bond would be repulsive at the original bond length of 1.94 Å. If an attractive force is a proof of a chemical bond, is a repulsive force a proof of the lack of a chemical bond? was a repulsive force between the oxygen and the hydrogen that was relaxed when the external forces were removed. Does this mean that there was no chemical bond between the O and the H?