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A knowledge of the detailed nature of the ion-water coordination in the vicinity of the ion is crucial to a full understanding of concentrated aqueous solutions. The neutron first-order difference method described by Soper et al.1 allows detailed ion-water conformations to be obtained directly and without recourse to modeling techniques. It avoids all the difficulties associated with total neutron or X-ray scattering data2 and we are now in a position to answer in a definitive way specific questions relating to the number of water molecules in the first coordination shell and the orientation of the molecule with respect to the ion-oxygen axis.
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Enderby, J.E. (1981). The Structure of Concentrated Aqueous Solutions. In: Inman, D., Lovering, D.G. (eds) Ionic Liquids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0920-9_2
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