adjective

• (of liquids) not forming a homogeneous mixture when added together.

  ‘water is immiscible with suntan oil’

  More example sentences

  • ‘They are immiscible with many organic solvents, particularly linear hydrocarbons and alicyclics like cyclopentane, so can be combined either with water or with an organic solvent to form a two-phase system.’
  • ‘Oil and water are immiscible liquids, but a temporary emulsion may be formed by a brisk shaking of the liquids.’
  • ‘We searched for immiscible liquid phases in monolayers of two different ternary lipid mixtures.’
  • ‘An emulsion prepared by homogenising two pure immiscible liquid components will rapidly result in phase separation.’
  • ‘Fluids, immiscible droplets of metal sulphides, and elements like boron and fluorine are concentrated in the remaining melt.’