For instance, by adding sodium chloride into water, we break the ionic bond between sodium and the chloride, and we form many individual hydrogen bonds. And this is a very favorable reaction. For example, let's say we form 12345 of these hydrogen bonds between sodium and water, and we form all these bonds between chloride and water. So even though we break that sodium chloride bond, we form many of these hydrogen bonds, and that is overall a favorable reaction. So notice that because the sodium loses that electron it gains a full positive charge. And so all these oxygen atoms of the water molecules orient themselves in a line in such a way so that the oxygen is in close proximity with the sodium.