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In computational chemistry, classical water models are used for the simulation of liquid water and aqueous solutions (with so-called explicit solvent, as opposed to the implicit solvation models). These models generally use the approximations of molecular mechanics. Many different models have been proposed; they can be classified by the number of points used to define the model (atoms plus dummy sites), whether the structure is rigid or flexible, and whether the model includes polarization effects.