ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Diple

Okay kiddo, so you know how magnets have a positive and a negative side? Well, some molecules are like tiny magnets too! And a diple is a molecule that has two opposite charges, like a plus and a minus side.

See, atoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. The electrons are the ones that have a negative charge, and usually they move around the outside of the atom in something called an electron cloud. But sometimes, when atoms come together to make a molecule, the electrons don't share equally - one atom might hog the electrons more than the other. When that happens, one side of the molecule has more negative charge than the other side. That's called a diple!

Like, imagine you have two magnets stuck together, but one is bigger than the other. The bigger magnet will have a stronger pull, right? So it's kind of like that, but with molecules.

Now, diple molecules can do some interesting things. They can interact with other diple molecules and attract each other, or they can interact with non-diple molecules and repel them. And that's important because it can affect things like how well a molecule dissolves in water or how it reacts with other molecules.

So there you have it, kiddo - diple molecules are molecules that have two opposite charges, and they can do some cool things because of it!