immiscible
Americanadjective
adjective
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Incapable of being mixed or blended together. Immiscible liquids that are shaken together eventually separate into layers. Oil and water are immiscible.
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Other Word Forms
- immiscibility noun
- immiscibly adverb
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Chemistry - High School
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These immiscible layers would explain why neither Uranus nor Neptune has a magnetic field like Earth's.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
The research group prints one liquid within another immiscible liquid, assembling soft membranes on the liquid-liquid interface.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2024
Separate layers are formed when immiscible liquids are poured into the same container.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
For her part, Dr. Bialik doesn’t see science and show business as being entirely immiscible molecules.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2011
In both cases the element evolved is liberated at the pole, but not retained by it; but by virtue of its elastic, uncombinable, and immiscible condition passes away into the surrounding medium.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
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