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adj. - (chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing.

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  • Chat and fright are immiscible, the way chat and love are not.
  • All these quanta are mutually immiscible, so that efforts to generalize become a muddle.
  • When heated to magmatic temperatures, these clusters melt to form hydrosaline liquid that is immiscible with the silicate melt
  • Or perhaps a better word would be immiscible: for some of the best avant-garde art has precisely that oil-and-water-y quality.
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