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Alcohols are comparatively more soluble in water than hydrocarbons of comparable molecular masses. Explain this fact.

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Alcohols can form H-bonds with water with water and break the H-bonds already existing between water molecules. Therefore, they are soluble in water.

On the other hand, hydrocarbons cannot form H-bonds with water and hence are incoluble in water.
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