infusible
1 Americanadjective
adjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of infusible1
First recorded in 1545–55; in- 3 + fusible
Origin of infusible2
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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
It has been found to stand well for the linings of rotatory puddling furnaces, where, under long-continued heating, it changes into a substance as hard and infusible as natural emery.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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 Bernard D. Bolas
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
It can be readily cut with a knife, and is infusible in any ordinary furnace heat.
From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Robert H. Jones
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