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SEx: Butter and Resin
Apollyon - Grammar Fascist Started conversation Mar 21, 2007
Why is butter so effective at removing resin from hands?
SEx: Butter and Resin
Orcus Posted Mar 21, 2007
Because it consists mostly of various oils and as such is a good solvent for other oily substances such as resins.
Water likes to dissolve things that are very polar in nature -that is things that are with charged like salts (sodium is a positively charged species and chloride is negative for example) or have a strong dipole (like a magnet) - such as alcohol.
Oil, being very unpolar will not mix with water. However, it will mix very well with other very non-polar things - resins for example.
SEx: Butter and Resin
Varindweion Posted Mar 21, 2007
because it is soluble in fatty substances? (and not water-soluble)
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