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miss_miracle
Apr 15, 2015

Its called "polarity"

polar covalent compounds can be dissolved because they have charges, just as water does. So the positives are attracted to the oxygen and the negatives are attracted to the hydrogen of H2O

Non polar covalent compounds have no charges so there is no attraction.

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