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1. What is the property of water that allows it to be universal solvent?
Mainly it should be clarified that water is the liquid that dissolves more substances,
for this reason it is called the universal solvent, now the property it makes Whether
this happens is defined by its ability to create bridges of hydrogen with the different
substances, these substances dissolve when interact with polar molecules in water
2. What happens with the dissolution of proteins in water?
It should be noted the following, for a protein to dissolve in water it must have ionic
and polar regions on its surface, what happens is that oxygen is attracted by a
partial positive charge in the lysozyme molecule and in turn the Hydrogen is
attracted by a partial negative charge on the lysozyme molecule as well when a
protein is solubilized it is covered by a layer of water that prevents them from
binding to other proteins which causes precipitation. As an additional detail this
property is what makes possible the hydration of the tissues of living beings