hydrophile
Sign in to savethumb|Schedorhinotermes termites use hydrophilic surfaces on body and wings to attach themselves to plants they colonize.
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- Subclass of
- molecular entity
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- opposite of
- hydrophobe
- has characteristic
- hydrophilicity
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- Molecules
- Chemicals
- Liquid chemicals
- Alcohols
- Solid chemicals
- Cyclodextrins
- Membrane filtration
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thumb|Schedorhinotermes termites use hydrophilic surfaces on body and wings to attach themselves to plants they colonize.
A hydrophile is a molecule or other molecular entity that is attracted to water molecules and tends to be dissolved by water.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hydrophile” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.