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As a general rule in Chemistry, like dissolves like. Water is a polar compound, and thus readily will dissolve or solubilize other polar compounds, such as ethanol. Polar compounds are created by differential electronegativity (tendency for an atom to pull electrons towards it) within a compounds. Though chlorine is very electronegative, CCl4 is a tetrahedron, which is symmetrical on all sides, and thus while the chlorine atoms pull electrons away from the carbon central atom, they do so proportionally, thus creating a non-polar compound. Due to this, hydrogen bonding with water does not occur as there are no dipoles, and the two do not create a solution.

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