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i'm writing a lab report of an experiment investigating strenth of hydrogen bond. An excess of cyclohexane was mixed with ethanol and there's a decrease in temperature of the mixture. I was told that upon the addition of cyclohexane, the H bonds between ethanol molecules were broken and I don't know why. C of cyclohexane are probably not electronegative enough to give the H directly bonded to them a delta +ve charge to attract lone pair electron of O from ethanol. Van der Waal's forces between molecules of ethanol and cyclohexane are not strong enough to overcome the H bonds. Can anyone explain to me what had cyclohexane done on the ethanol molecules?? thanks a lot~