Question

1. Imagine a drop of oil in water. If you add a surfactant, explain how the surfactant molecules organize themselves around the oil drop.
2. Imagine a drop of water in oil. If you add surfactant, explain how the surfactant molecules organize themselves around the water drop?

Answer 1

off the top of my head, the hydrophobic portions would surround the oil and hydrophilic would surround the water... for either