Explain why water can separate and disperse ionic solids such as nacl but most other solvents are unable to do so

A solvent is a chemical substance that has the ability to dissolve other chemical compounds, called solute, to form a solution.                

Solvents can be polar and non-polar in nature.

In general, polar solvents dissolve only polar solute molecules and non-polar solvents dissolve only non-polar solute molecules.

Highly polar solute molecule such as ionic compounds like NaCl and sugars, dissolve only in highly polar solvents with a large dielectric constant like water.

Therefore, because of the high dielectric constant of water, ionic compounds can be easily separated and dispersed.

in theory, limestone is composed principally of the compound calcium carbonate - caco3, but in reality this compound is deposited in conditions involving a number of other compounds as impurities so it ends up being a mixture of many compounds.

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