infusible
1 Americanadjective
adjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of infusible1
First recorded in 1545–55; in- 3 + fusible
Origin of infusible2
Example Sentences
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President Clinton is expected to soon sign a bill repealing the decades-old restrictions that have divided brokerage and banking into infusible industries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under an intense alpha radiation paraffin or vaseline become hard and infusible.
From A Brief Account of Radio-activity by Venable, Francis Preston
They also supply "hard" or "combustion" glass, but this is only used for special purposes, as it is too infusible for convenient working in the ordinary blowpipe flame.
From A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing by Bolas, Bernard D.
All the simple earths are nearly, if not absolutely, infusible; but when they are mixed they may all be fused.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
The mineral is infusible before the blowpipe, and is not decomposed by acids.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
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