What is "solvents"

Usage examples of "solvents".

Whenever the wind blew the right way, I got a whiff of organic solvents and gaseous byproducts.

They were using solvents in there, mostly for cleaning and sterilizing stuff.

One wall contained shelves of tools and equipment, but the rest of the space was crowded with shelves of canned fruits and vegetables, household solvents and gardening chemicals-some of which had been stored in jars and cans with handwritten labels.

Marcus had collected enough solvents, acids, propellants, and other chemicals to make a fairly noxious smoke bomb combined with an aerosol herbicide, the same kind she had used sparingly on her garden on Pacifica.