dissolvent

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

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar

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 — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles

This striking pair were the two complements of a single noble and solid type, holding tenaciously, in a century of dissolvent speculation, to the best ideas of a society that was slowly passing.

From Burke by Morley, John

That science was Geology; a science destined, in its ultimate scope, to prove a far more powerful dissolvent of dogma than any of its compeers.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward

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 Buck, Mitchell