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Hydrophile, from the Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 (hydros) "water" and f???a (philia) "friendship," refers to a physical property of a molecule
Molecule

In chemistry, a molecule is defined as a sufficiently stable, electric charge neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by very strong chemical bonds....
 that can transiently bond with water (H2O) through hydrogen bonding. This is thermodynamic
Thermodynamics

In physics, thermodynamics is the study of the conversion of heat energy into different forms of energy ; different energy conversions into heat energy; and its relation to macroscopic variables such as temperature, pressure, and volume....
ally favorable, and makes these molecules soluble not only in water, but also in other polar solvents
Solvent

A solvent is a liquid or gas that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.The most common solvent in everyday life is water....
. There are hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts of the cell membrane
Cell membrane

The cell membrane is the interface between the cellular machinery inside the cell and the fluid outside.It is a semipermeable lipid bilayer found in all cell ....
.

A hydrophilic molecule
Molecule

In chemistry, a molecule is defined as a sufficiently stable, electric charge neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by very strong chemical bonds....
 or portion of a molecule is one that is typically charge-polarized and capable of hydrogen bond
Hydrogen bond

A hydrogen bond is the attractive force between one electronegative atom and a hydrogen covalently bonded to another electronegative atom. It results from a dipole-dipole force with a hydrogen atom bonded to nitrogen, oxygen or fluorine ....
ing, enabling it to dissolve more readily in water than in oil or other hydrophobic solvents.






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Hydrophile, from the Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 (hydros) "water" and f???a (philia) "friendship," refers to a physical property of a molecule
Molecule

In chemistry, a molecule is defined as a sufficiently stable, electric charge neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by very strong chemical bonds....
 that can transiently bond with water (H2O) through hydrogen bonding. This is thermodynamic
Thermodynamics

In physics, thermodynamics is the study of the conversion of heat energy into different forms of energy ; different energy conversions into heat energy; and its relation to macroscopic variables such as temperature, pressure, and volume....
ally favorable, and makes these molecules soluble not only in water, but also in other polar solvents
Solvent

A solvent is a liquid or gas that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.The most common solvent in everyday life is water....
. There are hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts of the cell membrane
Cell membrane

The cell membrane is the interface between the cellular machinery inside the cell and the fluid outside.It is a semipermeable lipid bilayer found in all cell ....
.

A hydrophilic molecule
Molecule

In chemistry, a molecule is defined as a sufficiently stable, electric charge neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by very strong chemical bonds....
 or portion of a molecule is one that is typically charge-polarized and capable of hydrogen bond
Hydrogen bond

A hydrogen bond is the attractive force between one electronegative atom and a hydrogen covalently bonded to another electronegative atom. It results from a dipole-dipole force with a hydrogen atom bonded to nitrogen, oxygen or fluorine ....
ing, enabling it to dissolve more readily in water than in oil or other hydrophobic solvents. A hydrophilic is made up of alcohol and fatty acyl chains. Hydrophilic and hydrophobic molecules are also known as polar molecules and nonpolar molecules, respectively. Some hydrophilic substances don't dissolve. This type of mixture is called a colloid
Colloid

A colloid is a type of chemical mixture where one substance is dispersed evenly throughout another. The particles of the dispersed substance are only suspended in the mixture, unlike a solution, where they are completely dissolved within....
. Soap
SOAP

SOAP, originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks....
 has a hydrophilic head and a hydrophobic tail, which allows it to dissolve in both waters and oils, therefore allowing the soap to clean a surface.

See also

  • Hydrophobe
    Hydrophobe

    In chemistry, hydrophobicity refers to the physical property of a molecule that is repelled from a mass of water.Hydrophobic molecules tend to be non-polar and thus prefer other neutral molecules and nonpolar solvents....
  • Wetting
    Wetting

    Wetting is the ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together....
  • Super hydrophilicity
    Super hydrophilicity

    Under light irradiation, water dropped onto titanium dioxide forms no contact angle . This effect, called superhydrophilicity, was discovered in 1995 by the Research Institute of Toto Ltd....
  • Amphiphile