universal solvent

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   hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists

   Synonymsalkahestalcahest

   Broadersolvent

Questions about universal solvent

What does universal solvent mean?

universal solvent means "hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists".

What is another word for universal solvent?

Close synonyms include alkahest, alcahest. 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 universal solvent a common word?

universal solvent 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.