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Covalent compounds dissolve in organic solvents. Explain.

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Solution

Covalent compounds have very less polarity (like dissolve like)
Organic solvents are mostly non-polar in nature. Thus they dissolve covalent molecule like $O_{2}$ which is non-polar.

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