dissolvent

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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

Frederick the Great’s base tolerance produced dissolvent effects.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles

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

The French Revolution, which extinguished feudalism as a system and the nobility as a privileged class, speedily ceased to be a mere dissolvent.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph

On the traditional conception of romantic love inherited from medieval days there can be no doubt that this influence has been highly dissolvent.

From The Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock