Water is the substance that is often called the "universal solvent". However, in actuality, nonpolar substances cannot be dissolved in water.
Salt is not called the universal solvent. Water is called the universal solvent.
The universal solvent
do you mean solvent. because it is called universal solvent because it dissolves alot of different things
Water is a universal solvent.
The polarity of water gives it the distinction of being called the universal solvent.
yes water is a universal solvent as it has the property of dileteral constant which can almost break all covalent bonds as hence dissolves the matter into it
An universal solvent don't exist; water is only a very good solvent for many substances, a quasi-universal solvent.
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The most versatile and broadly useful solvent known to man is water. It is sometimes called a universal solvent, as a form of poetic exaggeration.
water is called as the universal solvent because almost all the substances are soluble in water .so only we call water as the universal solvent .
Water is called the universal solvent because it is very effective at dissolving a wide variety of compounds. It is also the essential solvent of living organisms. Thus, water has earned the nickname "universal solvent" (although water does not, in fact, dissolve all compounds).