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Dissolvent

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of dissolution into a fluid.
  2. 2
    Having power to dissolve a solid body.

    "the dissolvent juices [of the stomach]"

Noun
  1. 1
    A substance which can dissolve or be dissolved into a liquid.

    "For, that the ordure, which continually gathers on the skin, would ſoon ſtop the pores of it, if the ſweat were not furniſht with ſome efficacious diſſolvent to open and pierce them."

  2. 2
    a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin dissolvēns.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin dissolvēns.

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