inconsumable

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These two substances are really inconsumable, and continue to exist, after they meet in a combined form, as carbonic acid gas.

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  1. adjective That cannot be consumed: "I have an unmovable faith in God ... and inconsumable passion for truth and love” (Mahatma Gandhi).

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  • The waitress says something, then the bartender huffs off and proceeds to put so much Tabasco sauce in my drink that it is almost inconsumable. —  Ladies...
  • It was the most bitter tasting mug of joe I'd ever had; completely inconsumable. —  OnMilwaukee.com
  • These two substances are really inconsumable, and continue to exist, after they meet in a combined form, as carbonic acid gas. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
  • A speck, an atom--inconsumable-- Immortal, hopeless, voiceless, powerless! —  Andromeda and Other Poems
  • One passion in twin-hearts, which grows and grew 575 Till like two meteors of expanding flame, Those spheres instinct with it become the same, Touch, mingle, are transfigured; ever still Burning, yet ever inconsumable: In one another's substance finding food 580 Like flames too pure and light and unimbued To nourish their bright lives with baser prey, Which point to Heaven and cannot pass away: One hope within two wills, one will beneath Two overshadowing minds, one life, one death 585 One Heaven, one Hell, one immortality, And one annihilation. —  The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete
 

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/ɪnkənˈsjuməbl/
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