The second section presents the views andassumptions of realism in conducting research in social science. The main realistic attacks onlogical positivism approach are presented in the third section and the conclusion is given in thefourth section.
Water is considered 'the' universal solvent because more materials are dissolved by it than by any other solvent but it will not dissolve non-polar substances like oil.
The chemical nature of water is thus one we must examine as it permeates living systems: water is a universal solvent, and can be too much of a good thing for some cells to deal with. Figure 1. Water can exist in all three states of matter on Earth, while only in one state on our two nearest neighboring planets.