How can a molecule be hydrophobic?

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Dave
Mar 5, 2018

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Explanation:

Molecules are generally hydrophobic if they don't have polar bonds, ionic regions, or hydrogen bond donors and acceptors.

Oil, gasoline, vegetable oil - these things have long carbon chains with many hydrogens. But C-C bonds and C-H bonds are nonpolar, and so they don't generally like to interact with polar bonds (like O-H bond in water).

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