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

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the hydrophobic portions would surround the oil and hydrophilic would surround the water... for either
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Step-by-step explanation:

Surfactant are the substances that help in reducing the surface tension between two liquids. These liquids can be either a gas and a liquid or a liquid and a solid.

Therefore, when a surfactant is added to a mixture of oil and water then hydrophilic molecules of surfactant will surround the water molecules whereas hydrophobic molecules will surround the oil molecules.

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