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So what? Water dissolves many covalent compounds (but not all) and many ionic compounds (but not all). Sucrose happens to be a fairly polar molecule, with lots of hydroxyl groups hanging off of the carbon backbone, so it readily undergoes hydrogen bonding with water.

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