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>>10030823
That was my first thought, but how would you hydrate molecules of differing sizes? The lipid molecules aren't dissolved, sure, but it seems like there's no limit on molecule size there. The Na+ and Cl- ions (and other ions of differing size) definitely require different numbers of H2O molecules to dissolve, and one would assume that Br- would require more, K+ more, and dissolved alcohols would require drastically more than the ions.