Combined Science GCSE
Water as a solvent and transport medium
What Water as a solvent and transport medium means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Water as a solvent and transport medium
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Water is a solvent for metabolic reactions and is used in transport in organisms, for example in blood plasma and xylem.
Topics that use Water as a solvent and transport medium
- How materials are cycled (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Carbon cycle
- Changes of state
- Combustion
- Cycles maintaining supplies for life
- Cycling of matter
- decomposers
- Decomposition
- finite
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