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Charge distribution of the water molecule in the gas phase obtained from a quantum mechanical calculation.25 Counterintuitively, three point charges that optimally reproduce the electrostatic potential of this charge distribution are clustered in the middle, as opposed to the on-nuclei placement used by common water models that results in a much poorer electrostatic description of the underlying charge distribution.25
