What's the difference between insoluble and miscible?

Insoluble


Definition:

  • (a.) Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water.
  • (a.) Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, or difficulty.
  • (a.) Strong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
  • (2) The relationship between cold-insoluble complexes, or cryoglobulins, and renal disease was studied in rabbits with acute serum sickness produced with BSA.
  • (3) One cellulase is buffer-soluble, the other buffer-insoluble but extractable with high salt concentrations.
  • (4) Evidence is presented which suggests that these plasmid-mediated, temperature-inducible surface fibrillae are responsible for autoagglutination and are related to production of one prominent, Sarkosyl-insoluble polypeptide of ca.
  • (5) During the growth of Azotobacter vinelandii in batch culture in Burk's 2% glucose medium supplemented with 50 mg EDTA per litre, water-insoluble capsular polysaccaride material accumulated in cultures prior to the appearance of water-soluble polysaccharide in the culture medium.
  • (6) A Nonidet P 40 insoluble fraction was isolated from Trypanosoma brucei and was used to raise a monoclonal antibody (5E9).
  • (7) Insoluble collagen was found to bind electrostatically to chondromucoprotein.
  • (8) After 6 weeks irradiation, the insoluble collagen and elastin were both substantially elevated, as were the activities of glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and superoxide dismutase (SOD).
  • (9) However, since the Krafft point of lincomycin palmitate is approximately 43 degrees, it does not form micelles below that temperature and appears to be quite insoluble until heated above 43 degrees.
  • (10) Average remnant diameters were 400-600 A and remnants were enriched in cholesteryl esters and in protein insoluble in tetramethylurea.
  • (11) Ultrastructural studies of detergent-insoluble cytoskeletons from infected cells and immunofluorescence microscopy of phalloidin-labeled cells showed alterations in the structure of the cytoskeleton during the internalization process including the accumulation of polymerized actin around entering bacteria.
  • (12) Cells obtained from 12-day tissue remained monolayers for 4 to 8 days, after which time portions of the culture contracted into matrix containing chemically definable insoluble elastin and forming desmosine cross-links.
  • (13) Micrococcal nuclease-digested testis and erythrocyte chromatin was separated into soluble and insoluble fractions.
  • (14) Five other patients with water-insoluble paraproteins were tested; two were clot-inhibitory.
  • (15) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
  • (16) The protein component was relatively insoluble and contained an excess of acidic over basic amino acids and little cystine.
  • (17) Biochemical analysis of the kinetics of assembly of two cytoplasmic plaque proteins of the desmosome, desmoplakins I (250,000 Mr) and II (215,000 Mr), in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells, demonstrated that these proteins exist in a soluble and insoluble pool, as defined by their extract ability in a Triton X-100 high salt buffer (CSK buffer).
  • (18) The ratio of soluble to insoluble beta-galactosidase decreased during the course of cell growth.
  • (19) GP Ib was sedimented with the Triton-insoluble actin filaments in trace amounts only, and only after high speed centrifugation (100,000 x g, 3 h).
  • (20) Elastic fibers have been shown to contain two proteins, insoluble elastin and the elastic fiber microfibril, a glycoprotein.

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.