Yes it is.
Water is the substance that is often called the "universal solvent". However, in actuality, nonpolar substances cannot be dissolved in water.
The universal solvent
Salt is not a universal solvent. Water is often referred to as the universal solvent due to its ability to dissolve a wide variety of substances. Salt, on the other hand, is a solute that can dissolve in water or other solvents to form a solution.
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.
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.
An universal solvent don't exist; water is only a very good solvent for many substances, a quasi-universal solvent.
Water.
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 .
H2O The universal solvent