Esta história é " Variedades de Experiência Tecnológica " de Barry N. Malzberg.
Aqui estão trechos dos parágrafos finais quando o solvente que o protagonista consumiu começa a dissolvê-lo na frente do conselho de revisão:
Gently he extracted from his pockets schematics and diagrams to place before them in verification, gently he lay them in front of the gibbering old men and then as the solvent finally reached its critical point he consequently and with the most lingering of sighs, began to break down.
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Moved out to dissolve the floor, the walls, the Board itself to say nothing of the planet, consuming all of it utterly...so that all that was left...was a planet-sized glob of universal solvent, hanging there in space...