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Description: Get 50% off your first hands-on science subscription box with code MINUTE50 at melscience.com/pr/87Y3-JEA8. Water can dissolve more substances than anything else on earth...so why doesn't it dissolve everything away? LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: solvent: a substance that dissolves a solute solubility: the relative ability of a solute to dissolve into a solvent SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Kate Yoshida | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Lizah van der Aart | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Aldo de Vos | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC neptunestudios.info OUR STAFF ************ Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Arcadi Garcia i Rius David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes • Alex Reich Henry Reich • Peter Reich • Ever Salazar Alexander Vidal • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OUR LINKS ************ Youtube | youtube.com/MinuteEarth TikTok | tiktok.com/@minuteearth Twitter | twitter.com/MinuteEarth Instagram | instagram.com/minute_earth Facebook | facebook.com/Minuteearth Website | minuteearth.com Apple Podcasts | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minuteearth/id649211176 REFERENCES ************** Govorov, A. (1.28.2022), personal communication USGS (2018). Water, the Universal Solvent. usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/water-universal-solvent