a substance incapable of dissolving a given component of a solution or mixture.

What is solvent and non solvent?

As nouns the difference between solvent and nonsolvent

is that solvent is a liquid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution while nonsolvent is an insolvent person.

What does make solvent mean?

2 : something that provides a solution. 3 : something that eliminates or attenuates something especially unwanted.