Water and Polarity lecture 3

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What does it mean that water is polar?
Its electrons are distributed unevenly, creating partial positive and partial negative regions.
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Which part of water has a partial negative charge?
Oxygen.
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Which part of water has a partial positive charge?
The hydrogen atoms.
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What is a hydrogen bond?
A weak attraction between a partially positive hydrogen and an electronegative atom.
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What does hydrophilic mean?
Attracted to or interacts well with water.
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What does hydrophobic mean?
Repelled by or does not interact well with water.
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What types of molecules tend to be hydrophilic?
Polar molecules.
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What types of molecules tend to be hydrophobic?
Nonpolar molecules.
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What does amphipathic mean?
Contains both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions.