mixture
noun
a product of mixing.
mixtures
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pluralof mixture.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When he sent his proposed alloy mixtures to be created and tested at an MIT lab, both alloys burned up in a few hours, leading him to a lifelong skepticism of multiple regression analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
During the 1960s, its Molten Salt Reactor Experiment demonstrated that mixtures of molten salts could function as both nuclear fuel and reactor coolant.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
The mixtures completely neutralized the lethal effects of rattlesnake venom and also provided broad protection against venom from multiple viper species, including species separated by millions of years of evolution.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
The team decided to remove filling from previous restoration work, replacing it by mixtures of lime and sand that more closely resembled the original material used by Giotto.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Not one of the four ancient Ionian and alchemical “elements” is in the modern sense an element at all: one is a molecule, two are mixtures of molecules, and the last is a plasma.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
