A liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances.
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Examples for "solvent "
Examples for "solvent "
1 The age change is designed to help keep the elderly-care system solvent .
2 The path ensembles contain information on the folding kinetics, including solvent motion.
3 EU rules permit such a scheme only if the bank is solvent .
4 Mediation is not an insolvency procedure and is available to solvent companies.
5 However, the oxygen and nitrogen permeability decreased with decreasing residual solvent content.
1 Your cocksure, peering Protestant is the dissolvent - the force making for ruin.
2 But Césarine was, like her aunt, a born dissolvent of society's vital elements.
3 Drink water by pailfuls; it is a universal dissolvent ; water liquefies all the salts.
4 Therefore love is a dissolvent : therefore it is a corruptive and a wounding passion.
5 This constitutes a gilding dissolvent now in our market.
1 The roots of another family of monocotyledons (of some cyperaceae) possess also diaphoretic and resolvent properties.
2 On expression they yield a fine purple juice, which proves a useful laxative, and a resolvent in recent colds.
3 He found the soapy mucus within the vesicles of the Bladderwrack an excellent resolvent , and most useful in dispersing scrofulous swellings.
4 Chelaship was defined, the other day, by a Mahatma as a "psychic resolvent , which eats away all dross and leaves only the pure gold behind."
1 Impact lances, poison darts, dissolver rods and tasing bolts rained down onto their opponents.
2 Out in the dark beyond the floodlights, trees fell, brought down by the Chaga, dissolver of illusions.
3 It provides a smooth, pillowy texture in just about everything -from toothpaste and ice cream to rust dissolver .
1 In all these preparations, the dissolving agent of the worms is as much in evidence as when butcher's meat is employed.
2 "That libellous, scandal-seeking press," said Amadieu gravely, "is a dissolving agent which will bring France to ruin.
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