Use the following chemicals. ethanol, hexane, butanone, water, benzene, diethyl ether, ethyl acetate, acetone 4. Rank the solvents based on polarity, smallest to largest.

Hexane, benzene, diethyl ether, ethyl acetate, acetone, butanone, ethanol, and water.

Explanation:

This rank was made based on the distribution of charges that exist within each indicated molecule.

Hexane, benzene and diethyl ether are non-polar solvents, they are an organic type of compounds where their electronic distribution is symmetrical, so they lack of a positive and negative pole in their molecules.

Ethyl acetate, acetone and butanone are aprotic polar solvents, which indicates that they do not contain acidic hydrogen, so they do not have the ability to form hydrogen bonds.

Ethanol and water are polar protic solvents, they are very polar since they contain acidic protons and can form hydrogen bonds with solutes.