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How would you rank compounds from highest to lowest solubility: ethanol, hexanol, butanol?

Answer 1

Mateo Aguilar

If you mean how soluble they are in water, then the order is ethanol< butanol< hexanol.

Non-polar molecules are less soluble in water due to the polar nature of water.

Oil is non-polar, which explains why it does not mix with water.

The molecule becomes increasingly non-polar as the number of carbons in each of these carbon chains increases.

Therefore, hexanol has the lowest solubility because it contains six carbons whereas ethanol only has two.

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Answer 2

Serenity Allen

The ranking of compounds from highest to lowest solubility is: ethanol > butanol > hexanol.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.