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solvent
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solvent as in:  a chemical solvent

Water is the most common solvent.
solvent = a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances
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  • the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution†
  • The Judge's face, indeed, rigid and singularly white, refuses to melt into this universal solvent.†  (source)
  • Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.†  (source)
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It was a pursuit like unto that of the Universal Solvent of the mediaeval alchemists.†  (source)
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solvent as in:  the company is not solvent

The company is no longer solvent.
solvent = capable of paying money that is owed
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  • The janitorial closet smelled pungently of bleach and cleaning solvents.†  (source)
  • Sometimes they find tins of motor oil, caustic solvents, plastic bottles of bleach.†  (source)
  • An electrical fault ignited solvents used by the owner to clean, polish and restore her antiques.†  (source)
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  • If my father could sit tight until our place seethed with this life and movement, he would, Ty was sure, be reborn into a contented retirement, busy, as the farmers at the café said, solvent, and interested.†  (source)
    solvent = capable of paying money that is owed
  • On stainless-steel cars, solvents were used.†  (source)
  • It had been kind to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.†  (source)
  • On other days in other years, he had called her "the rabbit in the hat" and "the universal solvent" and "the recycler of our garbage."†  (source)
  • He showed Charles Chappell into a second-floor room that contained a table, medical instruments, and bottles of solvents.†  (source)
  • His guests would bring whiskey out with them but he drank of this with a sort of sparing calculation as though keeping mentally, General Compson said, a sort of balance of spiritual solvency between the amount of whiskey he accepted and the amount of running meat which he supplied to the guns.†  (source)
  • One of the shop workers, a lanky, bony-cheeked young man named Dominguez, was by the solvent sink, wiping grease off a wheel.†  (source)
  • "You got a biohazard team?" asked Puller, putting a hand over his mouth and nose to shield his lungs from the smell of solvents and chemicals.†  (source)
  • He played havoc among the nine-pins, and won half a crown, which restored him to solvency.†  (source)
  • Gimme a nylon bristle detail brush, some nitrile gloves, and maybe a can of that aerosol cleaning solvent.†  (source)
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