Talk:Water of crystallization

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Is there any relationship (in general) between metal-water coordination complexes and water of crystalization? I know that the chemistry of coordination compounds cannot be simplied to be shown in a very general way, but if there is any relationship between coordination of the metal ion with the water of crystalization, it should be mentioned here. For intance, we can say that an alum crystal has 6 water molecules per each metal ion (either potassium or aluminium), could this imply that each one of these ions has 6 water molecules attached? --Paiconos 16:17, 20 September 2005 (UTC)