Theoretically, it would dissolve everything- even the container it would be held in!
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.
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
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.
Carbon is not a universal solvent. Water is often referred to as the universal solvent because of its ability to dissolve a wide variety of substances due to its polar nature. Carbon, on the other hand, is not a solvent in the same way as water.
actually the substance in which a thing dissolves is called a solvent, and the things which dissolves in the solvent is called a solute. and water is called a universal solvent cuz it can dissolve a very wide range of solutes with a slight differende in their solubilities( that is the capacity to dissolve). fr eg in the case of sugar solution water is a solvent.
The universal solvent
Water is the substance that is often called the "universal solvent". However, in actuality, nonpolar substances cannot be dissolved in water.
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.
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.
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An universal solvent don't exist; water is only a very good solvent for many substances, a quasi-universal solvent.
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
It's not an element, but a compound that's called the universal solvent, and that compound is water. The strong polar nature of water means that it dissolves many polar covalent and ionic substances.