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Why are ions and polar molecules unable to pass easily though the lipid bilayer?

Why are ions and polar molecules unable to pass easily though the lipid bilayer?
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Why are ions and polar molecules unable to pass easily though the lipid bilayer?

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Because they have to go through the non-polar, hydrophobic tales of the phospholipid bilayer. Polar and non-polar do not like to be together 
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