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It is a suffix (placed at the end of a word) that literally means "loving." It refers to an affinity or attraction to something. For example, hydrophilic literally means "water loving" and is used to refer to molecules that are polar and like to react with water. The opposite of "philic" is "phobic." As you might expect, hydrophobic literally means "water fearing" and refers to molecules that are non-polar such as a hydrocarbon that essentially do not react with water.

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