The detergent is a molecule with a long nonpolar tail connected to a water-soluble polar head. The nonpolar tails surround the nonpolar dirt particles (like dissolves like) and the polar heads point toward the water. Each clump of dirt is then dispersed in the water as they are attached to these detergent molecules, sliding off clothes with agitation in the washing machine.
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Laundry soap it has a polar end and a non-polar tail, so part of it is "water-like" and part of it is "oil-like" and since "like dissolves like" it allows "water and oil to mix".
Soap (or detergent) ... a molecule with a water soluble end AND a fat soluble end.
This is the effect of soaps and other detergents: they make soluble fats and oils and form polar micelles attracted by water.
a molecule with polar and nonpolar end
a molecule with polar and nonpolar ends
Hydrophobic molecules do not dissolve in water. This is because water is hydrophilic. Another way to say this is that lipids, which are nonpolar, cannot dissolve in water, which in polar.
Water is polar
The reason why oil doesn't dissolve in ocean water is because oil is nonpolar and water is polar.
a molecule with polar and nonpolar end
a molecule with polar and nonpolar end
a molecule with polar and nonpolar ends
Most laundry dirt is oily or greasy. Detergents can mix with both oil and water, so when the wash water goes down the drain, the soap and dirt go with it. Detergent molecules are designed with a polar head of the molecule and a non-polar tail. The detergent molecule thus "ties together" the water and the grease. Soap performs the same function.
Hydrophobic molecules do not dissolve in water. This is because water is hydrophilic. Another way to say this is that lipids, which are nonpolar, cannot dissolve in water, which in polar.
Water is polar
A polar molecule
A) nonpolar compounds will not dissolve in water because water is polar
nonpolar. The fat molecules in peanut butter are nonpolar, that is why peanut butter doesn't evenly mix with water, a polar substance.
It is polar. That is why water sticks to your skin, unlike wax, a nonpolar substance.
Iodine is not soluble in water because iodine is nonpolar and water is polar. According to the "Like dissolve like" expression, nonpolar substances are soluble with nonpolar substances and polar substances are soluble with polar substances, but nonpolar substances are not soluble with polar substances.
no... water is a polar compound