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Determining which Nonpolar Solute most likely to be soluble in nonpolar solvent

 
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Aug23-08, 01:42 PM   #1
 

Determining which Nonpolar Solute most likely to be soluble in nonpolar solvent


1. Which of the following substances is most likely to be soluble in a nonpolar solvent?

a. glucose
b. graphite
c. sulfur
d. lithium fluoride


2. Relevant equations

Is there a way to figure out which of the nonpolar molecules above would most likely be soluble using the structure of the substances?

3. The attempt at a solution
Lithium fluoride is ionic so it is polar so it cannot be it. Glucose does not appear to have perfect symmetry so I assumed that it was slightly polar. Sulfur and graphite are pure elements, and I don't understand why sulfur would more likely to be soluble in nonpolar solvent. Ksp seems useless here since we are not dealing with ionic compounds.
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Aug23-08, 02:02 PM   #2
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Except graphite is carbon and so are nonpolar solvents.
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