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  • noun Plural form of mixture.

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Examples

  • Vinegar can be used in mixtures to repel bugs, unclog drains and clean windows, bathrooms and floors.

    Results of readers' tests of homemade 'green' cleaners 2009

  • Jets are diverse, uncertain mixtures of all these things.

    Particle Flow Calorimetry « Imaginary Potential 2008

  • Catalytic activity can be found in mixtures of random peptides or nucleic acid polymers.

    Another Protozoan and Front-Loading 2006

  • Catalytic activity can be found in mixtures of random peptides or nucleic acid polymers.

    Another Protozoan and Front-Loading 2006

  • Neither vermilion nor gamboge is reliably permanent. 16 The practical value of the triangles would be limited if the materials used to construct it were incompatible or otherwise unstable. reference Finally, although it is unlikely that this was deliberate, Mayer's use of nonperfect colors in mixtures has the effect of emphasizing his point that nearly any coloring material could be adapted to his techniques of color composition and identification. reference

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Theobald Smith had suggested that such toxin-antitoxin mixtures might be used to immunize man against this disease.

    Emil von Behring - Biography 1967

  • Either they can be described as mixtures of colors wavelengths, or they can be described as subtractions of various amounts of RGB from white light.

    The Glory - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Its problem is that physical bodies cannot truly be called mixtures of elements.

    Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West Hasse, Dag Nikolaus 2008

  • · Asphalts are defined as mixtures containing bitumen and a substantial proportion of inert mineral matter

    Chapter 4 1988

  • The heterogeneous responses of drug-treated cancer populations were characterized as mixtures of phenotypically distinct subpopulations, each modeled around a 'stereotyped' cellular phenotype.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Dinesh Kumar Singh 2010

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