what are solvents in selenium.

hello all,
i got some task to do in selenium, we are using selenium for gui testing, so i am trying to learn selenium, till now i learned few concept.
Selenium IDE: we use to test gui, but it is limited i mean we can't do programming, in this and all.
Selenium RC: selenium remote control we use to overcome the limitation of selenium IDE.
i get, how to write test cases.

But till now i don't know what are solvents and why we write them.
i searched but i didn't get any tutorial for solvents, we have written numbers of solvents and we are using them to write test cases, and i need to understand them, but i don't know anything about solvents.
can anyone please help me in this.

also please give some examples of solvents, so that i would be able to have better understanding.

Thanks.

Please QuoteYourSources (← click) - I have worked with Selenium and have never heard of "solvents" in this context. A search for "solvents" on seleniumhq.org turns up 0 zero results. Maybe this is something specific to your problem domain?

yes, actually i have also search allot for this, but didn't found anything.
but recently came to know, that we used this term in our organization, we have created solvents for our product which uses java api and while writing test cases we use those solvents.

Sounds like an internal term and you can ask your teammates for help.