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The paste applied to the side of a match box is a mixture of phosphorus trisulphide, glass powder (or sand) to cause friction and glue (binding material)

In the above given sentences, there are some english grammatical and spelling mistakes. They are ::

1. He are very happy -------> He is very happy

2. We gonna get a new dog ------> We are going to get a new dog

3. It taste sweet  -------> It tastes sweet

4. He like cats -------> He likes cats

5. Me favourite coler is blue -------> My favourite color is blue

A Light-year is a distance that light travels in the vacuum in one Julian year (365.25 days).

The light-year is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances. It is about 9.5 trillion kilometers or 5.9 trillion miles. 

We know that polar substances are soluble in polar solvents and non polar substances are soluble in non-polar solvents only. Here the hydrocarbons are non-polar molecular substances and water is a polar solvent. So water can't dissolve hydrocabons.

Hence, as hydrocarbons are non-polar substances, they are insoluble in water as it is a highly polar solvent.