Definition of Infusible

1. a. Capable of being infused.

2. a. Not fusible; incapable or difficult of fusion, or of being dissolved or melted.

Definition of Infusible

1. Adjective. That cannot be fused; unmeltable ¹

2. Adjective. From which an infusion may be made ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Infusible

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Infusible

1. 1. Incapable of being melted or fused. 2. Capable of being made into an infusion. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infusible

infuriation
infuriations
infusate
infusates
infuscate
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infuscation
infuscations
infuse
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infuser
infusers
infuses
infusibilities
infusibility
infusible (current term)
infusibleness
infusiblenesses
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Literary usage of Infusible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Metallurgy of Iron: By Thomas Turner... Being One of a Series of by Thomas Turner, William Chandler Roberts-Austen (1908)
"Bull-dog is made by calcining tap cinder, as it is by this process rendered much more infusible, owing to the conversion of part of the ferrous into ferric ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1853)
"14, 141; Chemische Briefe, 154) discovered tho liquid and the infusible solid ... C. Solid and infusible. Metaldehyde. Anhydrous aldehyde kept for some time ..."

3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"of a greyish-white colour, has an earthy fracture, and a smooth greasy feel; it adheres to the tongue, and is very plastic, tenacious, and infusible. ..."

4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1856)
"Titanium, obtained by exactly similar processes, and/calcined in crucibles of alumina, is infusible at a temperature which causes the vaporization of ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"five hundred grammes of very infusible cast-iron in thirty minutes. — Intellectual Observer, March, 1866. PETROLEUM AS A FUEL. Mr. CJ Richardson has so far ..."

6. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"... he rendered glass of a milky colour, semi-transparent, so hard as to strike fire with steel, infusible, and of a fibrous grain, by means of cementation. ..."

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