The phrase "ability to dissolve a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity or capability of a substance or entity to dissolve something else, often in scientific or technical contexts.
Example: "The ability to dissolve a variety of compounds makes this solvent highly effective in laboratory settings."
Alternatives: "capacity to dissolve a" or "capability to dissolve a".
Giving the president, rather than the prime minister, the ability to dissolve a government increases the risk of non-electoral replacement by a factor of 3.37.
Water has the ability to dissolve a wide range of inorganic and some organic minerals or salts such as potassium, calcium, sodium, bicarbonates, chlorides, magnesium, sulfates etc.
Processing of lignocellulosic biomass with ionic liquids (IL) and other solvents has gained importance in the last decade due to the tunability of the solvent chemistry and hence the ability to dissolve a wide variety of biomass types.
NMMO retains all the advantages of the ionic liquids ability to dissolve a variety of lignocellulosic substrates (Kuo and Lee2009, Shafiei et al.2010) without the need to chemically modify them and >99% of the solvent can be recovered due to its low vapor pressure (Perepelkin2007).
A rabbinic court claiming the ability to dissolve a marriage at will, however the mechanism, would instead send the message that the system is, in the end, not very serious at all.
Ionic liquids (ILs), salts composed of organic cations and either organic or inorganic anions [ 18]; these neoteric solvents have lately attracted significant attention due to their ability to dissolve a wide range of organic and inorganic compounds, including lignocellulosic materials [ 19, 20].
On the other hand, thrombolytic action of a compound would indicate its ability to dissolve an already existing blood clot.
For example, Dr. Sharfstein said, in 2008, McNeil notified the F.D.A. that it had hired an outside contractor to buy samples of Motrin from retailers to determine whether problems with the drug's ability to dissolve warranted a recall.
The president will lose the controversial ability to dissolve Parliament, a 1980s-era weapon that has long been used by warring political parties, egged on by the military, to destroy rival governments.
Keratolytic agent: drug with the ability to dissolve keratin (a structural protein found in the outermost skin layer), so that healthier skin underneath can thrive.
In the interview with "John" (see above), for example, he refers to the Power Promoter's ability to dissolve "organizational uncertainty" at a stage in the collaboration where it has been going on for some time.
