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Water, a highly under rated solvent.

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Water, aside from being absolutely essential for life itself,

if highly under rated as a solvent.

It is also a very cosmic 'element' in the old sense of the term

and, has intense physical properties.

Don't forget, we, too are made mostly of water....

search Wikipedia superheated water if interested,

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they don't call it 'the universal solvent' for nothing. cause a hugely broad range of chemicals will dissolve in it, which is why life is possible at all.. so it's not that underrated really.. except perhaps amongst backyard chemists.. because of these properties it's use in chemical purification seems limited..

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I agree, its good stuff the ol water.

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When I was in year nine I asked my science teacher how two gasses (Hydrogen &Oxygen) combine at room temp. to create a liquid and he couldn't tell me. The bastard had it in for me after that.

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like...H 2 O ?

That is funny!!

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