Having the quality or power to dissolve, break down, or disintegrate something.
From Latin dissolutivus, from dissolvere (to dissolve). The -ive suffix means having the quality of or tendency toward something.
The dissolutive power of water is why we call it the 'universal solvent'—over millions of years, water's dissolutive action on rock creates soil, carves canyons, and shapes entire continents through patient molecular erosion.
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