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Why do living things depend in the ability of water to dissolve many substances such as vitamins minerals?
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What is water solvency?
water's inherent ability to dissolve other substances
How does waters polar nature affect its ability to dissolve substances?
it dissovles
What is the ability of one substances to dissolve in another at a given temperature and pressure?
solubility
A measure of one substances ability to dissolve in a specific amount of another substance?
the answer is solubility. :)
What does solvant mean in chemical terms?
solvent is a substance that has the ability to dissolve other substances
What is the ability to dissolve other chemicals?
Solubility is defined as the ability of one substance to dissolve into another substance. Polarity is the main property that governs solubility. Polar molecules will dissolve in polar solvents and non polar molecules will dissolve in non polar colvents. Just remember like dissolves like. Water is polar and it is known as the univeral solvent.
Why is water often called the universal solvent?
Due to many substances ability to dissolve in water
What is the term for a substances ability to dissolve?
'Solubility' . NB Different substances have different solubilities. NNB All Group 1 metals are soluble. All nitrates are soluble Most chlorides are soluble or partially soluble Sulphates are insoluble. NNNB There is a table of solubilities for different substances in Wikipedia.
Is it true that water is near-perfect solvent?
Water is considered a "universal solvent" because of its ability to dissolve many substances.
Waters ability to dissolve ionic substances?
Water can dissolve ionic substances because in both substances the bond are very polar. When a solute is added to water, some of water's hydrogen bonds break as the water forms intermolecular bonds with the solute. Because ionic substances are polar, the new intermolecular bonds formed when they dissolve in water are quite strong, and can compensate for the energy lost when breaking the water's hydrogen bonds.
What does water chemistry primarily refer to?
It refers to the ability -or not- of a chemical substance to be able to dissolve in Water: in a word - Solubility.
Why is water a univarsal solvent?
because water culd dissolve almost everything
