solvent's Usage Examples:

390, 1856), and added "chloroform, ether, essences, or benzine or benzole" to the list of solvents.

The leading solvents are aqueous solutions of thiosulphates, unsystematically but generally termed hyposulphites.

Freemen, through indigence, sometimes sold themselves, and at Athens, up to the time of Solon, an insolvent debtor became the slave of his creditor.

It is readily soluble in hydrocarbon solvents, in chloroform and in alcohol.

Report from the Select Committee on Acts respecting insolvent debtors.

The process of extraction with volatile solvents is similar to that used in the extraction of oils and fats, but as only the most highly purified solvents can be used, this process has not yet gained commercial importance.

If either ion carried with it some of the unaltered salt or some of the solvent, concentration or dilution of the liquid would be produced where the ion was liberated.

resolvent operator; the Neumann series; the spectrum; spectral properties of bounded self-adjoint operators.

The corresponding relation for a pure liquid can be regained by considering that at infinite dilution the liquid becomes pure solvent, and the change of volume becomes equal to the volume V.

By looking at them together we understand how much the comedy of Terence was able to do to refine and humanize the manners of Rome, but at the same time what a solvent it was of the discipline and ideas of the old republic.

The silver iodide is separated and the solvent distilled off.

It is a good solvent for sulphur, phosphorus, wax, iodine, 'c.

When satisfied that a bank has become insolvent, the commissioner may take possession of it and wind up its affairs.

Synonyms:

carbolic acid, dimethyl ketone, alcahest, xylene, medium, resolvent, carbon tet, xylol, phenylic acid, perchloromethane, dissolving agent, carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloromethane, dissolvent, chlorobenzene, acetone, hexane, universal solvent, menstruum, toluene, propanone, alkahest, hydroxybenzene, methylbenzene, oxybenzene, naphtha, dissolver, phenol, remover,

Antonyms:

pro, truth, overstatement, falsehood, beginning,