solvent
IPA: sˈɑɫvʌnt
noun
- A fluid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.
- That which resolves.
adjective
- (finance) Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets.
- Having the power of dissolving; causing solution.
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Examples of "solvent" in Sentences
- The foil is insoluble in the solvent.
- Preferably the solvent is acetic acid.
- The solvent also acts as a preservative.
- The paper is then suspended in the solvent.
- Turpentine was used as a solvent and illuminant.
- Correct these items and SS will remain solvent for years.
- It is deliquescent in moist air and soluble in most polar solvents.
- The solvent is water rejecting and extracts the oil from the water.
- In the nucleosol, the liquid is water and the solvent is also water.
- The permeable reactive barriers neutralize the solvents in the ground water.
- The caffeine is then recovered from the solvent, and the solvent is re used.
- How safe and how solvent is open to question but more safe and more solvent.
- FLUEGEL: We need those premium increases to remain solvent within those geographies.
- Those should be cleaned in solvent, allowed to dry, then lubricated with no more than two small drops of low-viscosity oil.
- Scrub the action real good w/brushes (old tooth brushes, brass wire brush on some stuff), run a patch soaked in solvent down the barrel.
- Macdonald R. et al. [7] suggest that there are two distinct concentrating processes, which they term solvent switching and solvent depletion.
- They also have created mass hysteria over the alleged insolvency of Social Security (expected to remain solvent until 2037) and Medicare (2029).
- WaMu had been on the Fed's watch list for some time and was in a liquidity crisis when the government stepped in; to say they were solvent is a stretch.
- The word solvent has appeared in 110 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug. 20 in "Uncertainty in Courthouse Fogs the View at the Stadium," by George Vecsey: