dissolvent
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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 Charles Mackay
First, that the Air in which we live, move, and breath, and which encompasses very many, and cherishes most bodies it encompasses, that this Air is the menstruum, or universal dissolvent of all Sulphureous bodies.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
If dissolvent ideas do make their way, it is because the society was already ripe for dissolution.
From On Compromise by John Morley
No more powerful dissolvent for the self-complacency of humanity was ever composed.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Giles Lytton Strachey
The Reformation," according to H. A. L. Fisher, "was the great dissolvent of European conservatism.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
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