immiscible

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  1. adjective That cannot undergo mixing or blending: immiscible elements.

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  • Chat and fright are immiscible, the way chat and love are not. —  The Great California Game—Lovejoy—Jonathan Gash
  • In regime I associated with small drops (drop length / channel width [similar] < 4), we find that the pressure drop is independent of the drop size and the capillary number, and depends weakly on the ratio of the viscosities of the two immiscible phases. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Didn't they teach you in school that solids, like automobiles, are immiscible?
  • So you'll get phase separation - like two immiscible liquids, oil and water. —  ScreenTalk
  • Surface (interfacial) tension gradients due to surfactant concentration, temperature, and electrostatic potential across immiscible fluids are known to drive interface motion; this well-known phenomenon is termed Marangoni flow or the Marangoni effect. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. = French immiscible = Spanish inmiscible = Portuguese immiscivel, from Middle Latin *immiscibilis, unmixable, from Latin in- privative + Middle Latin miscibilis, mixable: see miscible.
 

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/ɪˈmɪsɪbl/
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