Water is known to be the
universal solvent because it can mostly dissolve most of the substances. The
reason behind its solvability is the bonding of intermolecular forces of
attraction. Out of the many bondings between molecules,
the bond that governs water or the intermolecular force that it has is H bonding or hydrogen bonding. Water is composed
mostly of two atoms of hydrogen one atom of oxygen. Both the hydrogen and
oxygen are polar elements and hydrogen is bounded with a high electronegativity
oxygen atom.
