At first glance, it’s just looks like plain old fishing line—but the strong filament is actually a technological innovation made of special plastic that dissolves into carbon dioxide and water through ...

New dissoluble clothing takes birth. The machine has a plastic syringe to heat and extract droplets of the liquid gelatin mixture. Image of 'clothes' used for representational purposes only.

“Dissoluble” (from Latin “dissolubilis”) first appeared in print in 1534, and “indissoluble” (with its “in-” prefix) followed in 1542.