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Alterable

adjective
1.
Capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic.  "Alterable conditions of employment"  Antonym: unalterable.
2.
(of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe.





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... alter Bodies as divide them, and by it we may obtain from a Mixt Body what was not Pre-existent in it. And how are we sure that in no other Body what we call Phlegme is barely separated, not Produc'd by the Action of the Fire: Since so many other Mixt Bodies are of a much less Constant, and more alterable Nature, then Mercury, by many Tricks it is wont to put upon Chymists, and by the Experiments I told You of, about an hour since, Appears to be. But because I shall ere long have Occasion to resume into Consideration the Power of the Fire to produce new Concretes, I shall no longer ...
— The Sceptical Chymist • Robert Boyle


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