Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Hydrophobic

Hydrophobic means that a substance is incapable of dissolving in water and that they cannot mix.  Oil is an example of a hydrophobic substance, the oil repels the water and they cannot mix, this is due to that fact that water is polar and oil is non-polar.

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