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Say I had a beaker of water at room temperature and threw in one salt molecule (NaCl). The Salt would separate into Na and Cl ions. What if I was able to separate the water containing the Na ion from the water containing the Cl ion and evaporated them, what would happen to the ions?

by /u/HookLifestyle in /r/askscience

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