Ammonia can form four hydrogen bonds per molecule. The lone pair on nitrogen can accept one hydrogen to form a hydrogen bond, and the three hydrogen atoms can bond to lone pairs to form three additional hydrogen bonds. However, if ammonia is the only molecule present, this bonding pattern is problematic because each molecule only has one lone pair per three hydrogen atoms. Thus, an average molecule would likely only have two hydrogen bonds, out of the maximum of four.
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