Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being mixed in all proportions. Used of liquids.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being mixed: as, oil and water are not miscible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being mixed; mixable.
- adjective (Chem.) Mixable in all proportions; forming a single phase when mixed in any proportion; -- of liquids.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective physics that can be
mixed together in allproportions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (chemistry, physics) capable of being mixed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A water molecule consists of one atom of Oxygen and two of Hydrogen but is also very miscible, that is it mixes well with many other substances, and considered a virtual universal solvent in the amount of substances water can be mixed with to form one homogeneous solution.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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A water molecule consists of one atom of Oxygen and two of Hydrogen but is also very miscible, that is it mixes well with many other substances, and considered a virtual universal solvent in the amount of substances water can be mixed with to form one homogeneous solution.
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Several preparations of petroleum known as the miscible oils are sometimes used.
Apple Growing M. C. Burritt
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I didn't recognize the word "miscible" when I saw it in the first paragraph, though I figured it out further down.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Most laboratories store chemicals in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), a popular solvent that can dissolve both polar (i.e., miscible with water) and nonpolar compounds.
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Light oils that are partially miscible with seawater can kill many fish, even those that generally occur only at depth [44].
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A substance was not good if it was not workable, that is, if a skilled practitioner could not use it satisfactorily. reference Colors that would be painted onto a surface, for example, should be miscible in the chosen medium.
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It comes in pills or liquid and is all-in-one formula contains high levels of fat-soluble Vitamins A, D, E and K in water-miscible form, plus water-soluble vitamins and zinc.
Vitamin Supplementation for Children With Alagille Syndrome 2005
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BLITZER: You know some people are saying that as bad as the physical conditions are for these veterans, these injured veterans, the bureaucracy makes life even more miscible.
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But that diuretics may be employed to the best advantage, it is requisite to chuse such as, besides increasing the quantity of urine, may at the same time render the animal oil more miscible with the watery vehicle of the blood, than otherwise it would be.
1760 diet revolution | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
knitandpurl commented on the word miscible
"Excitedly, I added to the mixture a couple of drops of my homemade chloroform, which, since chloroform is not miscible in water, sank promptly to the bottom."
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley, p 106
May 9, 2010