Problem 11-51

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water: dissolve ionic compounds and any compound capable of creating H-bond or dipole-dipole interaction with water.

Carbon tetrachloride, despite the presence of Cl atoms, is a non polar solvent (tetrahedral = no dipole moment).
Therefore, it dissolves non-polar compounds or those that can make “London dispersion forces”.

This problem is actually a revision of the Lewis structure-VSEPR concept.