dissolving agent

1. 1.

   a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances

   “the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution”

   Synonymssolventdissolventdissolverresolvent

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Questions about dissolving agent

What does dissolving agent mean?

dissolving agent means "a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances".

What is another word for dissolving agent?

Close synonyms include solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, resolvent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dissolving agent a common word?

dissolving agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.