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Posted by Peter on Friday, January 16, 2009 at 12:48pm.

Most dirt on your body is nonpolar, and is trapped in oil residue on your skin. What type of liquid is oil? (polar or nonpolar) show your calculations.

science - SraJMcGin, Friday, January 16, 2009 at 1:10pm
The following site may be of interest to you about oil:

http://www.cosmeticsandtoiletries.com/research/chemistry/17390254.html

Sra
science - drwls, Friday, January 16, 2009 at 1:55pm
You don't really need calculations to answer this. A discussion of the role of soap/detergents in dissolving (nonpolar) oil in (polar) water can be found at
http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/554soap.html

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