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Asking a chemistry professor about soap can lead down a slippery slope. W. Stephen McNeil’s daughter was three years old, her repetitive “why?” led to an exposition involving molecular bonds and the origins of the word “hydrophobic.”

McNeil, an associate chemistry professor at the University of British Columbia, published the exchange with his daughter for the Science Creative Quarterly several years ago, but still finds himself explaining soap to non-experts.

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