thumb|A solvent dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution thumb|Ethyl acetate, a nail polish solvent.
A solvent is a liquid that dissolves other substances (called solutes) to create a mixture called a solution. Solvents are important in everyday applications—for example, ethyl acetate is used in nail polish to keep the color in liquid form until it's applied.
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thumb|A solvent dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution thumb|Ethyl acetate, a nail polish solvent.
A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution. A solvent is usually a liquid but can also be a solid, a gas, or a supercritical fluid. Water is a solvent for polar molecules, and the most common solvent used by living things; all the ions and proteins in a cell are dissolved in water within the cell.
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