In this task, you are given a question and answer for that. The answer will fill in the blank or will complete the unfinished question. Your task is to provide an explanation based on the given question or fill-in-the-blank statement, and answer.

[Q]: Question: When quarks are taken further apart, they experience minimal attraction, but when they're brought together, they have an attraction that is 
 Answer: smaller
[A]: Gluons make quarks attract each other more strongly the farther apart the quarks get.


[Q]: Question: As we go further from shore, we normally will encounter _____ dissolved nutrients. 
 Answer: less
[A]: Therefore, water nearer shore usually contains more dissolved nutrients than water farther from shore.


[Q]: Question: Evan was drinking water with pH 7. He also had bleach in his house of pH 12. Which liquid is less basic? 
 Answer: water
[A]:
The closer to pH 14, the more strongly basic the solution.