dissolvent
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It is enough here to remind ourselves how serious a place is held by that work in the dissolvent literature of the generation.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch by John Morley
As in the case of Hume's metaphysical studies, they constitute the most powerful dissolvent the century was to see.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski
Subsequently, under the dissolvent influences of Versailles and through ridicule’s more annihilating might, though manners persisted morals did not.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
I would not advise, however, the use of aqua-regia, the infallible dissolvent of gold, because it would disorganize the leather.
From Book Repair and Restoration by Mitchell Buck
Some of them preferred cementation; others sought the universal alkahest, or dissolvent; and some of them boasted the great efficacy of the essence of emery.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions â Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
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