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Carbon tetrachloride and water are immissible while ethyl alcohol and water are missible in all proportions .Correlate this behaviour with the molecular structures of these compounds

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If is based upon generalisation that ..like dissolves like .. i.e. polar solutes dissolvein polar solvents while non-polar solutesdissolve in non-polar sovents. Water andethyl alcohol are miscible because both are polalr and show intermolecular hydrogen bonding

On the other hand, carbon tetrachloride is non polar. It can neither break the hydrogen bonding already existing between water moleculae, nor it can from hydrogen bonding with water. Therefore . `c ci_(4)` is immisible with water.
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