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Hydrophobic interactions are the basis for Sudan tests. Explain how hydrocarbons in lipids interact with polar surroundings

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Lipids are non-polar molecules, so they do not interact preferentially with polar molecules but they can interact with each other. In a polar medium, such as water, the hydrocarbons in lipids aggregate each other, in order to minimize contact with surrounding polar molecules. The interaction between non-polar solutes with polar surroundings exclusion is called hydrophobic interaction.

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