Which statement best explains water’s ability to dissolve covalent compounds?

Water is polar, so its partial positive and partial negative ends can attract the oppositely charged ends of polar covalent molecules. These attractions are dipole-dipole interactions, which can help water dissolve polar covalent compounds. Nonpolar compounds do not have permanent dipoles, and ion-dipole interactions apply to ions rather than covalent molecules.

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