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Solvent vs Resolvent - What's the difference?

solvent | resolvent |

As a noun solvent

is a liquid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.

As an adjective solvent

is able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets.

As a verb resolvent is

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solvent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A liquid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
    • , title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent , which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
  • That which resolves.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets.
  • Having the power of dissolving; causing solution.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
    • , title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.}}

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    resolvent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to resolve (separate) the constituents of a mixture

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any substance or material able to resolve the constituents of a mixture; a solvent.
  • (medicine) That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumours; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products.
    • (Coxe)
  • (mathematics) An equation upon whose solution the solution of a given problem depends.
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