Key concepts Chemistry Surfactants Density Polarity. Introduction You may have heard people say, “Those two mix like oil and water,” when they’re describing two people who don’t get along ...

Polar liquids, like water, do not dissolve nonpolar liquids like oil. Summary. Students will place isopropyl alcohol, mineral oil, and corn syrup in water to see if any of these liquids dissolve in ...

This is because food coloring is a polar liquid but oil is nonpolar. If you mix the two, you will see lots of little food-coloring drops dispersed in the oil, but both liquids do not mix.

A new study says polar bears could be killed when drilling comes to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because officials are not certain where pregnant mothers dig their dens. Surveys used to ...

WORCESTER — Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd tossed out the ceremonial first pitch ahead of the WooSox game at Polar Park Thursday night. The former Red Sox pitcher also dished out a few compliments to ...

IntroductionWhen a charged object such as a rubber balloon is brought close to a fine stream of a polar liquid, the stream is attracted toward the electrical charge. If the same charged object is ...

Oil molecules, however, are non-polar, and they can't form hydrogen bonds. If you put oil and water in a container, the water molecules will bunch up together and the oil molecules will bunch up ...

In The Wall Street Journal, Gary Roughead writes that in the race for Arctic energy, the U.S. and Russia are polar opposites—the Obama administration dithers while Moscow, with China close ...

Environmentalists said the new regulations give oil companies a blank check to harass the polar bear. About 2,000 of the 25,000 polar bears in the Arctic live in and around the Chukchi Sea, where ...

When many detergent molecules attach to a nonpolar oil droplet, they surround it and make a detergent-surrounded oil droplet. These droplets are then easily carried into the water solution." ...