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aqueous solution
A solution in which water is the solvent. Water dissolves many polar substances (see polar molecule), that is ionic compounds and covalent compounds with molecular dipoles, because the water molecules themselves are polar, with a negative charge on the oxygen atoms. They tend to cluster around positive ins (solvation), making the solution energetically favorable.
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