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Non-polar substances have no charges (nonionic) while polar substances have charges (ionic)

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How do you explain the phrase like dissolves like in terms of polar and nonpolar substances?

Polar substances dissolve other polar substances, and nonpolar substances dissolve other nonpolar substances. A polar substance cannot dissolve a polar substance and a nonpolar substance cannot dissolve a polar substance.


What are emulsions?

A polar and a nonpolar substance being made miscible together by another substance that has both polar and nonpolar characteristics.


Is human skin polar or nonpolar?

It is polar. That is why water sticks to your skin, unlike wax, a nonpolar substance.


Is peanut butter polar or nonpolar?

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Does tar dissolve in water?

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Is salad oil polar?

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What happens when a polar covalent bond and a nonpolar covalent substance combine?

When a polar covalent bond and a nonpolar covalent substance combine, they may form a heterogeneous mixture where the polar and nonpolar components do not mix together. The polar and nonpolar substances will tend to separate due to their differing intermolecular forces.


What type of substance will dissolve in a nonpolar substance?

A non-polar substance will dissolve in a non-polar substance. Like dissolves like.


What does it mean when lipids are non-polar?

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What does like disslove like mean?

Polar substances dissolve in polar liquids. Nonpolar substances dissovle in nonpolar liqiuds. (For more info on polar and nonpolar, refer to Chemistry)


Is a substance does not dissolve in water is it a ionic polar or nonpolor?

Like dissolve likes, therefore since water is polar and it does not dissolve, the substance is nonpolar.


What do you mean like dissolve like?

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