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Water is the substance that is often called the "universal solvent". However, in actuality, nonpolar substances cannot be dissolved in water.
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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.
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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.
Water is the compound that is the universal solvent. it is called this because more substances dissolve in water than in anything else.