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Ch.4 - Reactions in Aqueous Solution

Chapter 4, Problem 16

Would you expect that an anion would be physically closer to the oxygen or to the hydrogens of water molecules that surround it in solution?

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Hi everyone here We have the question that says in an ammonia solution, which adam in ammonia, would you expect a cat on to be closer to? So a cat eye on, by definition in has a positive charge, so it will be attracted two negative charges. Nitrogen in ammonia has a partial negative charge. So that means the cat ion will be attracted to nitrogen. So our answer here is nitrogen. Thank you for watching. Bye.