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Ann did an experiment on the solubility of substances. She realized that oil molecules can mix freely with gasoline but they cannot mix with water.How can the solubility of oil in gasoline be explained?

Ann did an experiment on the solubility of substances. She realized that oil molecules-example-1

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Similar substances tend to mix with other substances, thus polar substances mix easily with other substances and nonpolar substances mix with nonpolar substances. We have three substances, let's see what is the polarity of each substance.

Water: Polar

Oil: Nonpolar

Gasoline: Nonpolar

According to the above, since the oil and gasoline are non-polar, they will be mixed. In contrast, water, which is polar, does not mix with oil.

So, the answer will be the First option: Both oil and gasoline molecules are nonpolar, while water is polar. Nonpolar solvents have a tendency to dissolve other nonpolar molecules.

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