Interpretation: The reason why ethanol can dissolve in both gasoline and water needs to be explained.
Concept Introduction: Whether a liquid can dissolve in another liquid depends on the attraction between the molecules of both liquids.
Explanation of Solution
The dissolution of one liquid in other is based on the principle of like dissolve like. Here, polar liquid dissolves in polar liquid and non-polar will dissolve in non-polar. Among gasoline and water, gasoline is a non-polar solvent and water is a polar solvent.
The structure of ethanol is represented as follows:
Here, the hydrocarbon chain is non-polar in nature, Thus, it is soluble in a non-polar solvent that is gasoline, and the -OH group is polar in nature, which makes it soluble in a polar solvent that is water.
Thus, due to both the polar and non-polar parts of the ethanol, it is soluble in both gasoline and water.
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