Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being immiscible; incapability of being mixed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Incapability of being mixed, or mingled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition of being
immiscible - noun countable A measure of the degree to which a mixture of components is immiscible
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Examples
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The tie-in with dark-matter is as follows: in early development, a matter-based galaxy produced antimatter mini black-holes once conditions of immiscibility were established between the two types of material.
What’s the (Dark) Matter? John 2008
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But its precisely the turbulence of that wavefront, the immiscibility of consciousness with consciousness, that determines what subjectivity is.
This unhappy consciousness Adam Roberts Project 2007
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But its precisely the turbulence of that wavefront, the immiscibility of consciousness with consciousness, that determines what subjectivity is.
Archive 2007-06-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007
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CO2 can induce immiscibility both within the magmatic volatile phase and in hydrothermal systems.
Jacob B. Lowenstern 2001
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Metals make admirable poles, in consequence of their high conducting power, their immiscibility with the substances generally acted upon, their solid form, and the opportunity afforded of selecting such as are not chemically acted upon by ordinary substances.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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I guess Alan's story is just one more example of the tales of immiscibility that abound whenever the cold and hard light of reality is focused on how many Muslims in this country relate to wider society; stories which the liberal media choose to ignore, lest they cloud the propagandistic contrivance of fraternity. rapidly Muslims in the UK are growing, you begin to wonder what the future has in store.
A Tangled Web 2009
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The immiscibility [inability to blend] of water and oil breaks down if we introduce detergent into the mix.
The Buddhist Channel 2009
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Whether by politics as suggested by this Wikipedia article on Science and Religion or by an inherent immiscibility between its philosophies, science and religion have had periods during which they didn’t get along.
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