dissolvent

Borrowed from Latin dissolvēns.

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dissolvent (comparative more dissolvent, superlative most dissolvent)

2. Capable of dissolution into a fluid.

   Synonyms: dissoluble, dissolvable, soluble

   Antonyms: undissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble

4. Having power to dissolve a solid body.

   Synonym: solvent

   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

     the dissolvent juices [of the stomach]

   • 1834, Rám Ráz, Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús, London: […] [F]or the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; by John William Parker, […], →OCLC, page 64:

     [T]he operator evidently perceives the dissolvent property of the jaggery water, on its being tempered with the prepared mortar.

• dissolubility

dissolvent (plural dissolvents)

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

   Synonym: solvent

   • 1669 August 26, “[An Accompt of Some Books.] III. Ottonis Tachenii Hippocrates Chymicus. Venetiis in 12º.”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume IV, number 50, London: Printed by T. N. for John Martyn […] , printer to the Royal Society, published 1670, →OCLC, pages 1019–1020:

     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.

dissolvent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dissolvō