0 Hydrophobic substances cannot be mixed with or dissolved in water:
Researchers modified the particles' surfaces so that one side was water repelling, or hydrophobic, and the other was water attracting, or hydrophilic.
Hydrophobic chemicals include pollutants like dioxin and DDT.
Water rolls off the hydrophobic T-shirt so it isn't even wet afterwards.
The coating is hydrophobic, which stops the ketchup sticking.
1 suffering from hydrophobia (= a great fear of drinking and water, often a sign of rabies):
The patient was hydrophobic.
Lipids are molecules with a hydrophobic tail and a hydrophilic head.
A normally solid, hydrophobic material such as wax can be melted and a drug incorporated into it.
Polyester, polyacrylnitryl and others are hydrophobic synthetic fibres.
Hydrophobic clothing is much more stain-resistant.
If I were to contract rabies I would suffer an agonising, hydrophobic death.
When hydrophobic molecules are solvated in bulk water, possibilities for resolving some of the frustrations in the hydrogen networks appear.
A scenario emerges from these studies in which calcium ions coordinate the structure of interhemichannel hydrophobic domains.
