Water is a universal solvent
. Justify the statement.

Water is called the "universal solvent" because it dissolves more substances than any other liquid. This is important to every living thing on earth.

Water is a solvent due to the polarity of each water molecule.

This is how water dissociates ionic compounds(like NaCl) into their positive and negative ions.

The positive part of an ionic compound(Na⁺) is attracted to the oxygen side of the water while the negative part (Cl^-) of the compound is attracted to the hydrogen side of the water.