dilatant

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This agrees with what every chemist and physiologist has long known, and that is that carbon dioxide is not poisonous, but is a harmless dilutant just as nitrogen.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)

It is an inert substance which is used as food later on by the developing embryo, and it acts as a dilutant of the living matter of the ovum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various