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Can Na+ Form Hydrogen Bonds With Water

"On whether sodium ions can form hydrogen bonds with water"

Taste the combination of yin and yang, and all things are born. Water is the softest in the world, but it can be attacked. Its nature is lively, and it is often in harmony with various things. Sodium ions, metal ions are also masculine. Today I want to discuss whether sodium ions can form hydrogen bonds with water.

The structure of water, oxygen occupies the center, hydrogen is divided into two sides, oxygen has a lone pair of electrons, and hydrogen is positive. The hydrogen bond is a weak bond between hydrogen and electronegative atoms (such as nitrogen, oxygen, and fluorine) combined by electrostatic attractive forces.

Sodium ions, although positively charged, have lost their outer electrons, and there is no condition for solitary pairs of electrons to form hydrogen bonds with hydrogen. And its ion radius is large, the charge density is relatively low, and it is difficult to form a stable hydrogen bond with the hydrogen of water molecules.

Furthermore, the formation of hydrogen bonds in water depends mostly on the weak attractive force of the solitary pair of oxygen electrons and hydrogen. The characteristics of sodium ions are difficult to participate in such effects.

In summary, sodium ions are difficult to form hydrogen bonds with water. This is based on the principle of yin and yang, and the characteristics of physical properties are broken.