dissolvent

When the dissolvent was oversprayed by the second pipe, the foam turned to acid.

He urges his patients to 'drink water by pails full, it is a universal dissolvent'.

Rain, the Curse dissolvent.

"Very dark and dissolvent."

In these circumstances parents made a virtue of necessity; they believed that the experience of death could strengthen family ties, rather than act as a dissolvent.

He saw comedy as a "universal dissolvent," which ignores the higher aspirations (or trivializes them) and reduces life to the common prose (the inessentiality) of ordinary existence.

Liquor Alchahest, or a discourse of that Immortal Dissolvent of Paracelsus & Helmont, 1675.