What's the difference between immiscible and miscible?

Immiscible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of being mixed or mingled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mixtures of stearic (SA) and arachic acids (AA) with DMPC and DSPC show phase diagrams of the peritectic type, with a region of solid phase immiscibility from 0 to 28.5 mol% of fatty acid.
  • (2) Ethyl cellulose was dissolved in a water immiscible, volatile organic solvent, containing sulphadiazine as a model drug.
  • (3) Below 45 mN m-1 and in the absence of Ca2+ no indications of phase immiscibility were observed.
  • (4) In a condensed host lipid, the probe is partially immiscible, and segregates to form a heterogeneous film from which it is readily collapsed.
  • (5) Washing bacteria by centrifugation through a water-immiscible layer of silicones.
  • (6) The acid--immiscible with lecithin--forms well defined pure acid domains in the monolayer.
  • (7) However, the equilibrium surface film contains only the 2:1 complex and, therefore, 2:1 complex is also immiscible with cholesterol in surface films.
  • (8) Hexabrix and tolazoline exhibited transient immiscibility.
  • (9) Simultaneous measurements of the pressure in terminal lymphatics and interstitial tissue have been made in the exteriorized cat mesentery superfused with either physiological salt solution (Krebs solution) or a water-immiscible fluorocarbon, FC-80.
  • (10) The properties of perfluorocarbon liquid--clear, water immiscible, specific gravity twice that of water--make it an important adjunct to treatment of complex retinal detachments.
  • (11) Mixtures of POPC with DPPC or with DSPC exhibit gel phase immiscibility over the composition range 0-75% DPPC (or DSPC).
  • (12) Distribution of cephalotin, 2-tienylacetic acid, phenacetyl-D-(--)-alpha-aminophenylacetic acid, weak acids and D-(--)-alpha-amino-phenylacetic acid methyl ether, a weak base in two-phase systems containing two immiscible liquid phases was studied.
  • (13) Our DSC results indicate that the width of the phase transition observed at high peptide concentration is inversely but discontinuously related to hydrocarbon chain length and that gel phase immiscibility occurs when the hydrophobic thickness of the bilayer greatly exceeds the hydrophobic length of the peptide.
  • (14) Saturated and unsaturated phosphatidylcholine (PC)-cholesterol membranes have been studied, with a special attention paid to fluid-phase immiscibility in cis-unsaturated phosphatidylcholine (PC)-cholesterol membranes as previously proposed and to the three-dimensional structure of the membrane.
  • (15) When a small amount of human blood was injected, it flowed immiscibly to the lowest level, displaced the bile, and formed a clot of pure blood.
  • (16) Complete destruction of undiluted DMS or DMS in solvents miscible with water (methanol, ethanol, DMSO, DMF, acetone) or solvents partially miscible or immiscible with water (toluene, p-xylene, benzene, 1-pentanol, ethyl acetate, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, acetonitrile) could be obtained using any of the above methods.
  • (17) Below 20 mol % cholesterol the DPPC mixtures give heat-capacity curves each of which can be resolved into a narrow and a broad peak, suggesting the coexistence of two immiscible solid phases; above 20 mol % only the broad peak is observed and this disappears at about 50 mol %.
  • (18) It operates with commonly used HPLC eluents and immiscible organic solvents as long as the two phases remain immiscible.
  • (19) In vesicles composed of two lipids which are partially immiscible in the gel state, a size increase was observed at temperatures which mainly overlapped the range of temperatures of the lipid phase transition.
  • (20) Some anionic sulphate and sulphonate detergents were also unsatisfactory being immiscible with Kober reagent.

Miscible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being mixed; mixable; as, water and alcohol are miscible in all proportions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Additional knowledge of the miscibility properties (phase diagrams) of the binary bulk systems is required.
  • (2) Supplementation with 5-10 times the recommended daily allowance of vitamin E in a water-miscible form increased the plasma alpha-tocopherol concentrations to normal in all 19 CF patients so evaluated.
  • (3) DPPC and C16:0-CBS were miscible in all proportions in the gel phase above 10 mol% CBS and in the liquid-crystalline phase.
  • (4) Sodium salicylate had a marked effect on the release of benzocaine, depending upon the the type of vehicle, with the largest increase observed for the water-miscible base, polyethylene glycol (macrogol ointment BPC).
  • (5) Dimethyl isosorbide (DMI), which is currently under investigation for its potential use as a pharmaceutical vehicle and drug permeation enhancer, is a water-miscible liquid with relatively low viscosity.
  • (6) Each of the normals converted about 3% per day of their rapidly miscible cholesterol pool to cholic acid and 1% per day or less to chenodeoxycholate.
  • (7) The gradients that are used on reversed-phase material with solvent mixtures of water and completely miscible organic solvents are suitable for quantitative routine control of pharmaceutical products.
  • (8) The fractional turnover rates of the tracer-miscible glutamate and glutamine pools were fast, 8.0 and 2.8% min-1, respectively.
  • (9) Marked impairment of vitamin A absorption was noted when administered in a water miscible form in children with 1) combined infection with Giardia lamblia and Ascaris lumbricoides, 2) giardiasis alone, and 3) in a proportion of children with ascariasis alone.
  • (10) The influence of protons or calcium ions on the miscibility of cholesterol in phosphatidylserine has been examined using differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction.
  • (11) Successful entrapment was achieved with the following conditions: (1) an alkaline water phase, (2) addition of fatty acid salt in the oily phase, and (3) addition of a water-miscible solvent in the oily phase.
  • (12) In vivo insulin miscibility was performed for soluble and NPH insulin in a mixing ratio of 2:3, administered immediately after mixing in the syringe.
  • (13) This solid miscibility in the 18:2-rich milk fat could be a consequence of the lower proportion of saturated TGs or the presence of high proportions of diene and triene TGs containing 18:2 instead of monoene and diene TGs containing 18:1.
  • (14) Additionally, phase diagrams of egg yolk sphingomyelin (EYSM) with DMPC or DMPC-ether and 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC) or 1,2-O-dioctadecyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC-ether) demonstrated no major differences in miscibility of EYSM in ester and ether PCs.
  • (15) Further, the activity was not impaired during 21 h storage at pH 6.5 in 40% water-miscible solvents including methanol, ethanol, acetone, acetonitrile, dimethylformamide, dimethylsulfoxide, and dioxane.
  • (16) In addition to the differences in the chemical structure of the mixing components, the film states in the monolayer and the miscibility behavior of the bulk systems are also influencing factors.
  • (17) act., contained within the miscible pool, immediately followed by a reduction in calcium transfer from bone.
  • (18) We demonstrate that correction of the deficiency occurs after intramuscular administration of a water-miscible solution of retinyl palmitate (100,000 IU, or 30 mg retinol equivalent).
  • (19) A 4-week, bilateral, controlled study was carried out in 53 patients with various acute and chronic dermatoses to compare the effectiveness of 0.1% halcinonide in a water-miscible base, applied once daily, with 0.05% betamethasone dipropionate cream applied twice daily.
  • (20) The physiologic doses were given as an oil-soluble or a water-miscible preparation.

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