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Many alcohols, including ethanol, are soluble in water.

Explain, with the aid of a diagram, why ethanol is soluble in water.
Include relevant dipoles and lone pairs.

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Answer:

because ethanol is polar

Step-by-step explanation:

polar dissolves in polar. Ethanol has a hydroxyl(-OH) functional group in it.

Due to the presence of a bond between electronegative atom oxygen and hydrogen, the O-H bond acquires polarity.

Hence, due to the presence of polarity in O-H bond, it forms a Hydrogen bond with water which is responsible for the responsibility of ethanol in water.

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