Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being dissolved; that may be converted into a liquid: as, sugar and ice are dissolvable bodies. Also
dissolvible .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
dissolved .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of dissolving
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The makers of dropps are marketing their product as one that saves significant amounts of water as well as plastic. dropps is unique because it comes in dissolvable "toss-and-go" packs instead of liquid or powder format like many traditional detergents.
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The makers of dropps are marketing their product as one that saves significant amounts of water as well as plastic. dropps is unique because it comes in dissolvable "toss-and-go" packs instead of liquid or powder format like many traditional detergents.
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The Food and Drug Administration will meet this week to discuss the public health impact of tobacco products known as dissolvable tobacco, which some say resemble candy, including their use by children.
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This is related to Wittgenstein's distinction between solvable vs. "dissolvable" problems (or problem/questions).
You can't begin yourself away from what you're already doing. 2006
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Abbott's bioabsorbable everolimus eluting coronary stent is made of polylactic acid, a proven biocompatible material that is commonly used in medical implants such as dissolvable sutures.
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Last year, Dr. Lawrence Deyton, the director of the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco division, sent letters to both Reynolds and smaller rival Star Scientific Inc. in which he expressed concern that their dissolvable tobacco lozenges are candy-like in appearance and may appeal to the youth market.
Altria Plans To Test-Market Smokeless 'Tobacco Sticks' David Kesmodel 2011
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That brought back not only the chaw and snuff but also saw the rise of tobacco as dissolvable candy-like lozenges, tablets and breath strips, as well as sticks similar to toothpicks.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Chew on This: The Real Dangers of Smokeless Tobacco M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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That brought back not only the chaw and snuff but also saw the rise of tobacco as dissolvable candy-like lozenges, tablets and breath strips, as well as sticks similar to toothpicks.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Chew on This: The Real Dangers of Smokeless Tobacco M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Heavy metals are inactive amid an alkaline environment but become dissolvable in water in a neutral environment.
Deaths Toll Rises to Six in Hungary Toxic Mud Spill Veronika Gulyas 2010
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Cosmo Specialty Fibers has one of only a handful of U.S. plants capable of converting cellulose into "dissolvable" pulp and the only one close to Pacific port shipping lanes.
Old Port Profits With New Exports Joel Millman 2011
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