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The substances that are important to living things and can be dissolved by water, a.k.a. "universal solvent," are easily soluble. The substances that are important to living things are most likely usually positive rather than negative.

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Water is called this when it can dissolve many things?

Water is a universal solvent.


Water as a universal solvent?

Water is called a universal solvent because it dissolves more substances than any other liquid. This has to do with the polarity of each water molecule.


Why is water very effective at dissolving other polar substances?

water is an effective solvent because it is a polar molecule, it dissolves other polar substances, and it dissolves ionic compounds. that is why it is called the "universal solvent" due to the geometry of the water molecule itself


Why is water called a universal salt?

do you mean solvent. because it is called universal solvent because it dissolves alot of different things


What is the name of the element that is called 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.


What is a real world example of 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


What is the universal solvant?

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 .


Which compound is the universal solvent?

Water is the compound that is the universal solvent. it is called this because more substances dissolve in water than in anything else.


Why is it important to living things that water is a good solvent?

Water is used as a solvent because it can dissolve other polar substances and many ionic substances. It is often called the universal solvent. However, water does not dissolve polar substances and some ionic substances.


Is water a solute in which many things dissolve?

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.


What is the liquid called in a solution?

the liquid in a solution is called solvent. there are 2 main substances that is involved in the solutiona.)solute is the one that is dissolved by the solvent b.)solvent is the one who dissolves the solven EXTRA INFORMATION: WATER-is also known as "Universal Solvent".because it can dissolved upto 1000substances.


Why is water called the universal soluition?

It's a solvent, not a solution, but universal because it dissolves non-reactively, more chemicals than anything else. The resulting fluid (water+ element or compound) is the solution.