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Hofmeister series

The arrangement of anions and cations according to their ability to modify the properties of other solutes such as proteins, probably via their effectiveness in altering the internal structure of the bulk water phase. Chaotropes are agents that disrupt water structure, and cosmotropes are agents that stabilise it.

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