Comments on: How do organic solvents dissolve substances with covalent bonds? http://www.realfreshfood.com/blog/how-do-organic-solvents-dissolve-substances-with-covalent-bonds/ Thu, 17 May 2012 22:42:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Clueless :P http://www.realfreshfood.com/blog/how-do-organic-solvents-dissolve-substances-with-covalent-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-2278 Clueless :P Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:18:45 +0000 http://www.realfreshfood.com/blog/how-do-organic-solvents-dissolve-substances-with-covalent-bonds/#comment-2278 In the simplest terms, like dissolves like. Covalent bonds are not broken. As organic solvents have Van der Waals forces between their molecules and covalent substances also tend to have the same forces between then, these forces can extend easily through the mixture making them miscible. This is because the energy required to break the bonds between the organic molecules will be balanced out by the energy given out when the bonds between the covalent substance and the organic molecules form.<a href="http://www.medicalsupplyservices.com/medical-equipment-sales.htm"> Clueless :P</a> In the simplest terms, like dissolves like.

Covalent bonds are not broken. As organic solvents have Van der Waals forces between their molecules and covalent substances also tend to have the same forces between then, these forces can extend easily through the mixture making them miscible. This is because the energy required to break the bonds between the organic molecules will be balanced out by the energy given out when the bonds between the covalent substance and the organic molecules form. Clueless :P

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