dissolvent

Drink water by pailfuls: it is a universal dissolvent; water liquefies all the salts.

Let us trace the disastrous effects of these three dissolvent forces.

The flesh is white, delicate, partly translucent, easy for our stomachs to digest and no less suited to the grub's dissolvent.

The dream was agonizing as he tried one dissolvent after another without success.

It is enough here to remind ourselves how serious a place is held by that work in the dissolvent literature of the generation.