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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.