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