9.29. What properties of water make it useful as a solvent? What types of compound can it (i) dissolve, and (ii) hydrolyse?
9.29. What properties of water make it useful as a solvent? What types of compound can it (i) dissolve, and (ii) hydrolyse?
9.29. Water is highly polar in nature. That is why it has high dielectric constant and high dipole moment. Because of these properties, water is a universal solvent.
Water is good solvent for ionic compounds but poor solvent for covalent compounds. It can hydrolyse ionic compounds.
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