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Imagine a drop of water in oil. If you add surfactant, explain how the surfactant molecules organize themselves around the water drop?

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If you add a surfactant in water-oil mixture, surfactant molecules would form micelles wherein the hydrophobic end of the surfactant faces inside the micelle while the hydrophilic end faces the water molecules. Inside these micelles oil particles are attached. 
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