Question
Explain, why carbon tetra chloride does not dissolve in water?

Answer

Carbon tetrachloride ia a non polar covalent compound. It do not ionize in water. Since water is a polar covalent compound that is it has positively and negatively charged ends but the non-polar covalent compounds do not have any kind of charge separation. So water molecules of non polar compound and break apart the intermolecules, this is the reason for which $CCI_4$ is insoluble in water.

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