"Water is one of the most important substances on earth. All plants and animals must have water to survive. If there was no water there would be no life on earth.
Apart from drinking it to survive, people have many other uses for water. These include:
So, one of the important features of water is cleaning process. Which water property (biological, chemical, physical) cause the this feature?
What is the thing that makes of water to cleaner? Is there any scientifical proof about that?
My simple thought is the physical activity that dilute the germs and some hypotonicity may also help.
Water acts as a universal solvent. It is a polar and has amphoteric properties.Because of hydrophilcity property , it can dissolve both acids and bases and many organic compounds .It. forms strong hydrogen bonds with the most compounds . It is both physical and chemical properties that makes it cleaning solvent.
Firstly, the water is cheapest cleaner. Secondly, the properties of water.
There are most the best cleaner than water for washing. But, water is obtained convinently and numerouly.
Water is available in abundant quantity (most importantly free of cost) and act as solvent for all hydrophilic (H-Bond) compounds and non hydrophilic compound can be cleaned with the help of surfactants.
I think the cleaning is associated with both chemical as well as physical properties, as it has amphoteric nature. Chemically it removes all the kind of dirt by dissolving. Moreover if the residual water is remained then it wouldn't cause any harm.
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