The quality or state of being dissoluble; the capacity to be dissolved or broken apart.
From dissoluble + -ness (a suffix forming nouns from adjectives, indicating state or quality). This combines Latin roots with Old English suffix.
The dissolubleness of different substances is why chemists use the saying 'like dissolves like'—polar solvents dissolve polar substances, and nonpolar solvents dissolve nonpolar ones. It's chemistry's fundamental matching game.
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