Usage examples for solvent
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By a powerful solvent the noble principle in the National Church became nearly all invisible, though some of it could not be dissolved. – The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham
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The use of the chlorate is simply as a solvent of iodine. – American Handbook of the Daguerrotype by Samuel D. Humphrey
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Those of an intense black may be likened to dyers' products: they are completely impregnated with the colouring matter, which is part and parcel of the molecular constitution and cannot be isolated by the nitric solvent. – The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean Henri Fabre