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Solvent

Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.

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Narrower term 13

Acetone 76% connected

A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of cert…

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Alcahest 76% connected

Same as Alkahest.

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Alkahest 76% connected

The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.

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Denouement 76% connected

The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.

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Hexane 76% connected

Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six car…

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Menstruum 76% connected

Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.

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Naphtha 76% connected

The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil.…

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Oxybenzene 76% connected

Hydroxy benzene. Same as Phenol.

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Phenol 76% connected

A white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal, etc., and obtained…

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Remover 76% connected

One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks.

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Toluene 76% connected

A hydrocarbon, C6H5.CH3, of the aromatic series, homologous with benzene, and obtained as a light mobile colorless liquid, by distilling tolu balsam,…

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Xylene 76% connected

Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. T…

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Xylol 76% connected

Same as Xylene.

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Medium 76% connected

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

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Statement 76% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Resolve 74% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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Resolve 74% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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Solve 74% connected

To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a…

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Solve 74% connected

To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a…

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Solvency 74% connected

The quality or state of being solvent.

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Solvency 74% connected

The quality or state of being solvent.

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Answer 92% connected

To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

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Dissolvent 92% connected

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

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Dissolver 92% connected

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.

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Resolution 92% connected

The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of…

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Resolvent 92% connected

Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.

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Result 92% connected

To leap back; to rebound.

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Solution 92% connected

The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.

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Insolvent 94% connected

Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and busines…

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Insolvent 94% connected

Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and busines…

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