There are four conditions an atom needs to meet to participate in hydrogen bonding. It needs to be enough not to bump into other atoms when approaching the 1s orbital of the hydrogen, it needs to carry at least one atom, it needs to beenough to create a delta on the connected hydrogen, and it needs to have at least one.

The conditions are

1) Small enough

2) Electronegative atom

3) highly electronegative

4) lone pair of electrons

The correct statement therefore is

It needs to be small enough not to bump into other atoms when approaching the 1s orbital of the hydrogen, it needs to carry at least one electronegative atom, it needs to be highly electronegative enough to create a delta on the connected hydrogen, and it needs to have at least one lone pair of electrons.

Explanation:

Hydrogen bonding is a type of intermolecular bond that occurs between the partial positive charge (delta) on a hydrogen atom bonded to a small highly electronegative element (like nitrogen, oxygen or fluorine) and the free electrons on another electronegative element of another molecule.

The hydrogen atom with the partial positive charge (delta) is known as the hydrogen bond donor, while the electronegative element, carrying lone electrons is called the hydrogen bond acceptor.

Let's take a deeper look at these terms:

1) Hydrogen bond donor

Using water (H₂O) as an example, the high electronegativity of the oxygen atom covalently bonded to the hydrogen atom draws the lone electron in the 1s orbital of the hydrogen atom, creating a partial positive charge (d⁺) on the hydrogen atom. This is what happens within one water molecule

2) Hydrogen bond acceptor

When two or more molecules of water interact, the partial positive charge (d⁺) on the hydrogen atom of one molecule, is attracted to the valence or free electrons on the oxygen atom of a nearby molecule of water thus creating a dipole-dipole intermolecular bond known as a hydrogen bond.

For the hydrogen bond to be effective, the electronegative atom bonded to the hydrogen acting as the hydrogen bond donor in the first water molecule needs to be small enough so as not to disrupt the 1s orbital of the hydrogen atom. The smaller the size of the electronegative atom, the stronger the partial negative charge created on the hydrogen atom.

The valence or free pair of electrons on the electronegative (oxygen) atom of the second molecule of water (hydrogen bond acceptor) is what attracts the partial positive charge on the hydrogen atom to create the hydrogen bond

a compound is a molecule made of atoms from different elements.

a. by the combination of an unlimited number of elements