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the universe's favorite trick for making something disappear without ever destroying it
means The act of making a substance weaker or more spread out by mixing it with something else, usually a liquid like water.
from From Latin 'diluere,' to wash away or dissolve, built from 'dis-' (apart) and 'luere' (to wash) — a cousin of words like 'deluge' and 'lave.' The image baked into the word is older than chemistry: not vanishing, but washing-apart, spreading a thing thin until it loses its bite.
- homeopathy
- Some remedies diluted past containing a single original molecule
- shareholder pain
- New stock issues shrink your slice silently
- the dose
- Poison and cure separated only by water
- ocean limit
- Dilution failed; pollutants now everywhere at once
homeopathy — remedies diluted 30c or higher contain no original substance molecules, yet marketed as medicine
stock market equity dilution — twitter shareholders saw ownership diluted ~9.2% when elon musk issued new shares in 2023
alcohol proof reduction — whiskey barrel-proof (120+ proof) diluted with water to 80 proof for standard bottling