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Specifically, that 2001 testing showed the carcinogenic solvent and dry-cleaning chemical perchloroethylene, or PCE, in the soil at levels as high as 6,658 micrograms per liter, said Alysa Pakkidis, information officer for the agency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Road dust was swept and analyzed for microplastics by direct analysis and solvent extraction to separate bound plastic from asphalt and plastic additives by water extraction.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

"Processes like drug purification and solvent recovery are both energy-intensive and quality-sensitive," noted Mr. Vinay Thakur.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026

What Bagehot actually said was that a central bank must face down a panic by lending freely at a high rate of interest to solvent banks against good collateral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Now, with the extension of the mortgage bond market into the affairs of less creditworthy Americans, it found its fuel in the debts of the less solvent half.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Even though they have no internal friction, they still act as solvents, allowing molecules to dissolve within them.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 4, 2026

Existing battery assembly lines include football-field-long ovens for drying layers of material that have been dissolved in solvents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Many of those operations used petrochemical products and solvents such as resins, adhesives and acrylic compounds like methyl methacrylate, the chemical at the center of the Orange County crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

The segments are broken up or mixed with solvents before being put through a chromatography process.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

Benzene, a frequent constituent of insecticidal solvents, lodges in the marrow and remains deposited there for periods known to be as long as 20 months.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson