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Sodium sulfate is an ionic moiety that is completely dissociated into sodium cations and sulfate anions. Such dissociated ionic species, when interacting with water, a polar protic solvent, present two strong intermolecular forces.
Firstly in water, the hydrogens are attached to highly electronegative oxygen making the H atoms electron-deficient. To make up for this deficiency they seek electron-rich atoms like the oxygens of sulfate ion which share their lone pair of electrons with the electron-deficient H atoms and thus stabilize themselves as well as the H atoms. This IMF is called hydrogen bonding and apart from existing between sulfate ions and water, exists between water molecules themselves.
The second IMF is the ion-dipole interaction between the partially negative charge-bearing O atom of water and the cation sodium of sodium sulfate. This interaction is similar to the electrostatic attraction between sodium and sulfate but does not involve complete electron transfer. The ion-dipole interaction can be seen as a type of H-bonding, only involving cations instead of electron-deficient hydrogen atoms. By their number, these two IMF between sodium sulfate and water allows the former to sequester water molecules in diethyl ether.
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