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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

Instead of relying on the solvent intensive chemical process commonly used to manufacture synthetic DNA, the device uses a water based enzymatic approach.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Instead, it relies on the unique way lithium ions interact with water molecules inside a solvent that changes behavior depending on temperature.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026

In a financial panic, Bagehot prescribes, a central bank should lend freely to solvent banks against good collateral at a high rate of interest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Sullivan was thirty-eight and incapable of cultivating the relationships that might have generated enough new commissions to keep him solvent.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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