dissolvent

Let us trace the disastrous effects of these three dissolvent forces.

There are organizations which it affects like a dissolvent, there are others which it affects like wine.

He intended it for a dissolvent of calx of gold; but the truth is, Sir Kenelm was an arrant mountebank.

If dissolvent ideas do make their way, it is because the society was already ripe for dissolution.

Equality, as a phrase, having done duty as a dissolvent, was pressed into service as a constructor.

The dissolvent and destructive aspect of science is not less important.

To him it was a dissolvent of greater or less activity, according to the nature of the individual in whom it worked.

The flesh is white, delicate, partly translucent, easy for our stomachs to digest and no less suited to the grub's dissolvent.

The stomach has a dissolvent that causes hunger, and puts man in mind of his want of food.

The dream was agonizing as he tried one dissolvent after another without success.