{"id":47988,"date":"2024-09-18T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47988"},"modified":"2024-09-18T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:43:11","slug":"biochemistry-what-is-a-micelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biochemistry-what-is-a-micelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry: what is a micelle?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring biology, structures arise. The tutor mentions the idea of a micelle.<\/h2>\n<p>\nA micelle is a rounded structure consisting of an outer layer and some cargo inside. Of the molecules forming its outer layer, each is two-sided, with one side being chemically attracted to the external environment, while the other is repulsed by it, but attracted to the cargo.<\/p>\n<p>\nSoap bubbles are micelles: each soap molecule has an end that is attracted to water, while its other end doesn&#8217;t like water, but is instead attracted to oil and\/or dirt. Therefore, inside a soap bubble, one may find a payload of dirt.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/news-article\/why-soap-works\/#:~:text=These%20molecules%2C%20when%20suspended%20in,outward%20and%20tails%20tucked%20inside.\">medicine.yale.edu<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, structures arise. The tutor mentions the idea of a micelle. A micelle is a rounded structure consisting of an outer layer and some cargo inside. Of the molecules forming its outer layer, each is two-sided, with one side &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biochemistry-what-is-a-micelle\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biochemistry: what is a micelle?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3368],"tags":[3369],"class_list":["post-47988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","tag-micelle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47991,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988\/revisions\/47991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}