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adjective

Immiscible adj.

Not capable of being mixed or mingled. "A chaos of immiscible and conflicting particles."

Specifically: (Chem.) Not miscible; forming two distinct phases when mixed at some concentration; of two liquids; as, water and gasoline are immiscible.

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Etymology of 'Immiscible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Immiscible" Quotes from Famous Books

... watch the fog. By bending over towards the dashboard and looking into the soon arrested glare I could make out the component parts of the fog. It was like the mixture of two immiscible liquids—oil, for instance, shaken up with water. A fine, impalpable, yet very dense mist formed the ground mass. But in it there floated myriads of droplets, like the droplets of oil in water. These droplets would sometimes sparkle in a mild, unobtrusive way as they were nearing ...

— Over Prairie Trails • Frederick Philip Grove

... analyse and destroy the civilisation they themselves lived in. Their fluid civilisation held all the elements of life in active vital solution. They left hard, definite, clear-cut crystals for us to deal with, separate, immiscible, inharmonious substances. It was Progress, no doubt, as Progress exists in our world. The men of those days were nearer to Barbarism. They were also nearer to the Secret of Nature. Nowadays it is only among men of genius—a Whitman, a Wagner, a Rodin, a Verlaine—that the ancient secret ...

— Impressions And Comments • Havelock Ellis