Also in the Area. 1  Camp Roberts Emergency Services Building, 680 feet southwest. 2  Big Sandy Creek Stream, 1 mile east. 3  Roberts Army Heliport Heliport, 1Â½ miles north. 4  National Guard Base Military Training Area Camp Roberts Military installation, 3 miles south. 5  Nacimiento River Stream, 3 miles north.
A water molecule, because of its shape, is a polar molecule. That is, it has one side that is positively charged and one side that is negatively charged. The molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The bonds between the atoms are called covalent bonds, because the atoms share electrons.
This attraction is known as hydrogen bonding. Due to this polarity, water is a good solvent for polar/ionic solutes (hydrophilic) .When an ionic or polar compound enters water, it is surrounded by water molecules (Hydration). The relatively small size of water molecules typically allows many water molecules to surround one molecule of solute.