nonpolar
Americanadjective
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Chemistry - High School
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He and his colleagues now believe their latest finding -- that certain polar and nonpolar substances* can combine under extreme cold -- could guide future research into the moon's surface and atmosphere.
From Science Daily • Oct. 17, 2025
The fact that hydrogen cyanide, a strongly polar molecule, can form crystals together with nonpolar substances like methane and ethane is remarkable, since these types of molecules usually stay separate, much like oil and water.
From Science Daily • Oct. 17, 2025
The Atacama is the driest nonpolar desert on Earth.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
The solubility of polar molecules in polar solvents and of nonpolar molecules in nonpolar solvents is, again, an illustration of the chemical axiom “like dissolves like.”
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
In general, stranding reports suggest that goosebeaked whales are sparsely but widely distributed in nonpolar latitudes.
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by Caldwell, David
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