opposite charges attract
hydrogen → more positive
oxygen → more negative
You may want to reference (Pages 122 - 125) Section 4.1 while completing this problem.
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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