Hydrophobic
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Hydrophobic species, or hydrophobes, tend to be electrically neutral and nonpolar, and thus preferring other neutral and nonpolar solvents or molecular environments. Hydrophobic is often used interchangeably with "oily" or "lipophilic".
Examples of hydrophobic molecules include the alkanes.
- Compare: hydrophilic, hydrophobia.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Hydrophobic" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
