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| | solvent. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Other compounds valuable as solvents because they dissolve materials that are insoluble or nearly insoluble in water are acetone, alcohol, benzene (or benzol), carbon disulfide, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, ether, ethyl acetate, furfural, gasoline, toluene, turpentine, and xylene (or xylol). |
 | | Polar solvents, of which water is an example, have molecules whose electric charges are unequally distributed, leaving one end of each molecule more positive than the other. |
 | | Nonpolar solvents, of which carbon tetrachloride is an example, have molecules whose electric charges are equally distributed. |
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