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Oil molecules like to stick to other oil molecules more than they like to stick to water molecules. This is because mineral oil has nonpolar molecules and water has polar ones.
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The reason why mineral oil which is the mixture of hydrocarbons is not been considered to dissolve in water is that it is a non-polar molecules.

  • Water can be regarded as a polar molecules whereas mineral oil can be considered a non-polar molecules which makes it not to dissolve in water.

  • In non-polar molecules, there is usually electrons that are equally shared at the confinement of their covalent bonds.

We can conclude that there is unequal sharing of electrons associated with polar solvent.

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