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defon
3 years ago
15

4. What is a solvent?

Biology
2 answers:
crimeas [40]3 years ago
7 0
A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution. ... Water is a solvent for polar molecules and the most common solvent used by living things; all the ions and proteins in a cell are dissolved in water within a cell.
VMariaS [17]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

something in which you dissolve another substance/able to dissolve other substances.

Explanation:

Some examples of solvents are water, ethanol, toluene, chloroform, acetone, milk, etc.

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