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Please rank the following chemicals by their likelihood (highest = 1, lowest = 3) of staying dissolved in water vs. partitioning to a more lipohilic component in water like sediments or dissolved organic carbon. Please provide a justification for your answer.
Ethinyl Estradiol: Log Kow = 3.67
DDT: Log Kow = 6.91
Zinc Chloride: Log Kow = 0.15
Rank 1 = Zinc Chloride
Rank 2 = Ethinyl Estradiol
Rank 3 = DDT
Explanation:
Partition coefficient :
For Zinc chloride logKow = 0.15
Kow = 100.15 = 1.41
Therefore for zinc chloride [Solute]organic : [Solute]aqueous = 1.41 : 1
For Ethinyl Estradiol logKow = 3.67
Kow = 103.67 = 4677
Therefore for Ethinyl Estradiol [Solute]organic : [Solute]aqueous = 4677 : 1
For DDT logKow = 6.91
Kow = 106.91 = 8128305
Therefore for DDT [Solute]organic : [Solute]aqueous = 8128305 : 1
Therefore likelihood of zinc chloride staying dissolved in water is the highest and likelihood of DDT staying dissolved in water is the lowest.