insolubility
Americannoun
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the quality or fact of being unable to be dissolved.
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the quality or fact of being impossible to solve.
Example Sentences
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To date, approaches to treatments for Alzheimer's disease have not addressed the contribution of protein insolubility as a general phenomenon, instead focusing on one or two insoluble proteins.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2024
"I think ours is one of the few studies that shows that insolubility and aggregation of those proteins might be the link between the two."
From Science Daily • May 16, 2024
I keep thinking about this push and pull of tension in the game: the apparent insolubility, the frustration, controller throwing, and then…something breaks.
From Forbes • Mar. 27, 2015
Rude folks might switch two tabs on thee, The most unkindest switch of all, Into insolubility.
From Scientific American • Mar. 28, 2011
The drug has the actions and uses of tannic acid, but owing to the relative insolubility of catechu-tannic acid, it is more valuable than ordinary tannic acid in diarrhoea, dysentery and intestinal haemorrhage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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