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insolubility

American  
[in-sahl-yuh-bil-i-tee] / ɪnˌsɑl yəˈbɪl ɪ ti /

noun

  1. the quality or fact of being unable to be dissolved.

  2. the quality or fact of being impossible to solve.


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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

Anderton said the team suspected they might see that amyloid beta is driving some level of insolubility in other proteins.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

Such a method, perhaps, could yield insights that help us solve hard problems, or, conversely, accept their insolubility.

From Scientific American • Sep. 3, 2021

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

This is, of course, used where high temperatures are to be employed, and also in certain cases where its comparative insolubility in water is of importance.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard