Question

Why would dry cleaners use nonpolar tetrachloroethylene, C2Cl4, to get cheeseburger grease out of your clothes?

Answer 1

Being non- polar it is not water soluble due to which it just behaves like the soap and form misscelles due to which the clothes become clean.

Answer 2

Welcome friend,

● Explaination -
- First of all, it's dry cleaning so we can't use water to wash these clothes.
- Greese is a non-polar substance stuck as dirt to our clothes.
- To dissolve a non-polar substance you need a non-polar solvent.
- Therefore, dry-cleaners use tetrachloroethylene to remove greese from clothes.

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