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Since phospholipids make up cell membranes, it is important for them not to dissolve in water, because the internal and external environment of cells is aqueous. Without the phospholipid bilayer, the cells and their environments would just all dissolve into each other and there would be no cells.

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Does toilet paper dissolve in water?

Yes, toilet paper is designed to break down and dissolve in water to prevent clogging in plumbing systems. This is why it is safe to flush down the toilet.


Why does water dissolve anything?

Water is a polar molecule, meaning it has a positive end and a negative end. This polarity allows water molecules to surround and break apart other polar or charged molecules, enabling them to dissolve in water through a process called hydration. The ability of water to dissolve a wide variety of substances makes it a universal solvent.


How do you use saturated solution in a sentence?

I made a saturated solution by adding sugar to water until no more sugar could dissolve.


What happens when sugar is stirred into water?

The sugar will dissolve in water because sugar is polar and so is water with hydrogen bonds. When attraction happens, the water molecules will separate the sugar molecules and the sugar will be dissolved.


What determines wether a compound will dissolve in water?

To understand why things dissolve at all, we will look at the solution formation process from a thermodynamic point of view. shows a thermodynamic cycle that represents the formation of a solution from the isolated solute and solvent. From Hess's law we know that we can add the energies of each step in the cycle to determine the energy of the overall process. Therefore, the energy of solution formation, the enthalpy of solution, equals the sum of the three steps--ΔHsoln = ΔH1 + ΔH2 + ΔH3 truth is i dont have a clue......................

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