What is "dissolves"

Usage examples of "dissolves".

A plant of Drosera, with the edges of its leaves curled inwards, so as to form a temporary stomach, with the glands of the closely inflected tentacles pouring forth their acid secretion, which dissolves animal matter, afterwards to be absorbed, may be said to feed like an animal.

Hooker has recently shown, Nepenthes, could all have acquired the power of secreting a fluid which dissolves or digests animal matter.

The secretion dissolves bone, and even the enamel of teeth, but this is simply due to the large quantity of acid secreted, owing, apparently, to the desire of the plant for phosphorus.

That these glands secrete a fluid which dissolves or digests animal matter out of the bodies of the creatures which the leaves capture, is also highly probable from the analogy of Dionaea.

This applies to the infant, for example, when it no longer dissolves in tears if food is not immediately forthcoming.

This is what I meant when I said that structural-functionalism collapses propositional truth and intersubjective understanding to interobjective fit or functional fit, and ironically dissolves its own truth status into monological mesh.

States of grace, as only one of many examples, gives an unrelenting history of Woman as Eternal Victim, which is presumably meant to empower women, but actually and profoundly dissolves the power of women in the very first step by defining them as primarily molded by an Other.

Being is what is beheld in all these living things, well then, the experience that dissolves the distinction between the I and the Not-I cannot be false.

If those rights are not met, the wholeness dissolves or disintegrates.

It appears, however, according to Schiff, and contrary to the opinion of some physiologists, that weak hydrochloric dissolves, though slowly, a very minute quantity of coagulated albumen.

From these experiments it is clear that the secretion completely dissolves pure fibrin.

We may, therefore, conclude that the secretion quickly dissolves casein, in the state in which it exists in milk.

The secretion, as we have seen, completely dissolves albumen, muscle, fibrin, areolar tissue, cartilage, the fibrous basis of bone, gelatine, chondrin, casein in the state in which it exists in milk, and gluten which has been subjected to weak hydrochloric acid.

From trials made with a large number of substances, it was found that those which the secretion of Drosera dissolves completely, or partially, or not at all, are acted on in exactly the same manner by gastric juice.

These experiments are sufficient to show that the secretion from the glands of Dionaea dissolves albumen, gelatine, and meat, if too large pieces are not given.