Biotechnology and biochemistry

Dispersion forces are ubiquitous and are present in all molecular interactions. They can occur in isolation, but are always present even when other types of interaction dominate. Typically, the interactions between hydrocarbons are exclusively dispersive and, because of them, hexane, at S.T.P., is a liquid boiling at 68.7°C and is not a gas. Dispersive interactions are sometimes referred to as hydrophobic or lyophobic particularly in the fields of biotechnology and biochemistry. These terms appear to have arisen because dispersive substances, e.g., the aliphatic hydrocarbons, do not dissolve readily in water. Biochemical terms for molecular interactions in relation to the physical chemical terms will be discussed later. 

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