Like other iron minerals, green rust readily absorbs dissolved elements onto its surface, but green rust is not only particularly efficient at this in many cases, it can also react with toxic dissolved trace metals to make them insoluble, and as a result, renders them in nontoxic forms.

MSN: What green rust did long ago to the big blue ocean

The team found that most of the methane is being dissolved into the seawater and did not detect evidence of the gas breaking the surface of the ocean and getting into the atmosphere.

BBC: Methane seeps from Arctic sea-bed

Had it not managed to agree to keep talking, the assembly would have dissolved in wretched failure.

ECONOMIST: Parliament dithers on

It probably does not matter if some silk gets into a vaccine when it is dissolved in water prior to inoculation.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

If it could not, the Speaker would have to certify that - and then Parliament would be dissolved and an election held.

BBC: Farewell, Lords reform?