Sentence examples for a universal solvent from inspiring English sources
He writes: "Empathy is like a universal solvent", the way to resolve all interpersonal problems.
It is the closest thing we have to a universal solvent, able to tear apart other compounds.
And so a hunk of Cheddar becomes superior to Nevermind: a universal medium of communication; or at least, for foodists, a universal solvent of the intellect.
Widely known as a universal solvent, DMSO is highly effective at permeating the skin and delivering a drug to the vascular system.
Petraeus is the head of the C.I.A.; but is sex, or the rumor of sex, a universal solvent that makes concerns about the F.B.I. rifling through a writers' files go away?
None of this is to say that immigration is a universal solvent for the U.S. economy, or that there aren't American workers who have been hurt by competition with immigrants.
Water also serves as a nearly universal solvent, able to dissolve more substances than any other liquid.
I was otherwise clean as a whistle (an effect I attribute to that universal solvent, Diet Coke).
The universal solvent is a most effective weapon against toxins and many other violators.
If your iPad screen has just been vandalised by your 3 year old and now covered in goo, just dampen a small piece of the cloth with the universal solvent (water clean the goo off and then dry with the rest of the cloth.
The universal solvent for small molecules, dimethylsulfoxide has a high refractive index; consequently, on ligate addition a large non-specific solvent effect is seen which can mask the specific signal.
