Sentences with phrase «solvation shell»
The researchers analyzed the resulting simulations and determined that when chloride or iodide ions were added into bulk water, the molecules formed a cage or solvation shell around the ion.
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The solvation shell was uneven as a small cavity formed on one side between the ion and the water molecules.
Some of the electronic charge on the chloride ion (Cl --RRB- ends up on the water molecules in the first solvation shells around the chloride and sodium ions, with the waters around sodium being the most negative — the waters effectively act as an electronic sink.