hydrophilic substances are electrically polar in character, they possess a dipole. Intermolecular forces associated with this polarity attract (or are attracted by) the polar water molecules. Having sufficient energy, the water molecules can interpose themselves between and eventually surround the hydrophilic substance thus reducing the repulsive intermolecular forces acting between these hydrophilic molecules in their pure state...
Energy and Entropy effects are driving the process...
Hydrophobic molecules, as the name describes with the suffix (Phobic, meaning fear) Tend to avoid contact or mixing with water. Hydrophillic molecules mix readily.
A hydrophobic [Latin-water fearing/hating] substance will not dissolve in water; whereas the hydrophilic [water loving] substance will dissolve.
Hydrophilic molecules attract toward water.Hydrophobic molecules move away from water.
Hydrophobic is when something repels water and hydrophilic is when something attracts water.
hydrophobic
hydrophilic - loves water hydrophobic - repels water
A hydrophilic substance will dissolve in water. A hydroPHOBIC substance will not.
A polar molecule is hydrophilic, which means that it will easily dissolve in water. Examples of hydrophilic molecules are sugars and salts.
hydrophobic is water hating and hydrophilic is water loving ( attracts water).
it is the opposite. Hydrophobic is water hating, hydrophilic is water loving. ie, hydrophobic substances avoid water, hydrophilic are attracted
Hydrophobic is when something repels water and hydrophilic is when something attracts water.
hydrophobic
hydrophilic - loves water hydrophobic - repels water
A hydrophilic substance will dissolve in water. A hydroPHOBIC substance will not.
Hydrophobic substances avoid or move away contact with water. Hydrophilic objects move toward water.
Hydrophilic means that a substance has an affinity for/attraction to water. It binds with water easily. [It is the opposite of hydrophobic, where a substance has an aversion for water. It forms droplets in water (like oil).]
Hydrophilic molecules are attracted to water. Hydrophobic molecules are not attracted to water, but they are attracted to each other. Phospholipid molecules are unusual because they are partly hydrophilic and partly hydrophobic. The phosphate head is hydrophilic and the two hydrocarbon tails are hydrophobic. In water, phospholipids form double layer with the hydrophilic heads in contact with water on both sides and the hydrophilic tails away from water in the centre. This arrangement is found in biological membranes. The attraction between the hydrophobic tails in the centre and between the hydrophilic heads and the surrounding water makes membranes veery stable.
A polar molecule is hydrophilic, which means that it will easily dissolve in water. Examples of hydrophilic molecules are sugars and salts.
Cholesterol has many hydrophobic side chains and a single hydrophilic side chain. Because it contains both hydrophilic and hydrophobic groups, it is amphipathic.yes cholesterol Hydrophobic , choestol not soluble in water
Hydrophilic is having an affinity for water; readily absorbing or dissolving in water.( love water) Hydrophobic is repelling, tending not to combine with, or incapable of dissolving in water.(hate water)