But what happens if we take water and we place a single non polar molecule into that water? What exactly will happen then? Well, non polar substances basically have very little or no polarity. And what that means is non polar substances have a symmetric distribution of charge and so they will not show an electric dipole nomin like water does. So non polar substances have no polarity and do not interact favorably with water because if they don't have an unequal separation of charge, that means they cannot form these relatively strong hydrogen bonds. And so if we take a single non polar molecule and we place it into water, what will happen is all these water molecules will essentially form a cage around the non polar molecule.