Scientists recreated the conditions on Saturn’s moon Titan and watched molecules that shouldn’t mix form stable crystals together — at around minus 179°C, polar hydrogen cyanide accepts nonpolar methane and ethane into its crystal structure, breaking one of chemistry’s most familiar rules of thumb.
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Like dissolves like is one of chemistry’s most useful shortcuts. Polar materials tend to associate with polar materials, while nonpolar compounds prefer their own kind. On Titan, at temperatures that… [+9791 chars]