On the other side of them lay the processing vats, where all organic tissues-muscles, bones, nails, skin and hair-were dissolved to basic biotic molecules.

And as the pair continued to tear into the vital instrumentation beneath the hull, Rhea's skin dissolved and drifted away in a puff of atoms.

I feel as if my skin has dissolved down there, and it's a part of you.

Their silks and skin dissolved as if gobbled by a cloud of ravenous moths.

It's almost as if their skin just dissolved away.

The skin dissolved like an ice cube in boiling water.

It began with the auras, light refracting from the people nearest him as if their skin and flesh had dissolved, transforming the remainder into lenses through which he now peered.

The mirror-Jillian's skin dissolved, leaving a glowing skull.

In each of these places, Vander's skin had simply dissolved, leaving garish, brutal wounds.

The skin, he said, dissolved like wet paper when he began to stitch.