Their business has dissolved from underneath them.
The band dissolved from 1981 to 1986, when the survivors realized they made their best music with each other.
Gold is dissolved from the residual solids using a chlorine-based process and then filtered in mushroom mats.
These deposits are generally composed of calcium carbonate dissolved from the surrounding limestone by groundwater.
Occasionally, however, the expression on Ms. Rivera's face dissolved from one of cosmic merriment into the stricken mask of a sad clown.
In this process metal is dissolved from a workpiece with direct current at a controlled rate in an electrolytic cell.
Antimony poisoning has resulted from drinking acidic fruit juices containing antimony oxide dissolved from the glaze of cheap enamelware containers.
Hundreds of hotels, motels and boarding houses flourished in the back alleys and sagebrush of Reno, where about 32,000 marriages were dissolved from 1929 through 1939.
The electrolyte, usually an aqueous salt solution, is pumped under pressure through the inter-electrode gap, thus flushing away metal dissolved from the workpiece.
The hydrous oxide minerals occur as the residuum when sulfide minerals are dissolved from the outcrops; they are either indigenous (i.e., fixed at the site of the original sulfide mineral) or transported.
Hydrometallurgy consists of such operations as leaching, in which metallic compounds are selectively dissolved from an ore by an aqueous solvent, and electrowinning, in which metallic ions are deposited onto an electrode by an electric current passed through the solution.
