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nonpolar
[ non-poh-ler ]
adjective
- containing no permanently dipolar molecules; lacking a dipole.
Example Sentences
Anything oily works, and any nonpolar solvent — meaning the electrons don’t create a positive and negative charge at the ends — can do the trick, Britcher explains.
In the new analysis, however, scientists detected a drop in the amount of ozone in recent years at lower levels of the stratosphere over the Earth’s nonpolar regions, where most of the population lives.
So, flavor molecules will happily take up residence in nonpolar materials like oils and fats, a process called extraction — or sometimes infusion or tincturing.
For example, the properties that allow you to identify a basic, polar or nonpolar amino acid side chains were seen in the first semester of college chemistry.
Because in most cases oxidation makes the molecule less hydrophobic, more water soluble and more like to be excreted through water-rich kidneys; in general kidneys like polar compounds while the liver like nonpolar ones.
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