Now, ion Pairing is A Momentary aggregation of Electrically charged ions found In A Concentrated solution Of Two Or More compounds. Now to really grasp what we mean by Ion pairing, let's create a solution and see what happens with the natural solution. So let's mix liquid water and solid sodium chloride and see what happens. Well, once we mix them, the sodium chloride dissociates and forms ions. So we have a bunch of polar water molecules separated by ions. At any given time, two of these ions might be separated by a solvent water molecule, and at this point, they can't interact with one another because of this separation.