When a liquid will not mix in any proportions with another liquid what is it termed?

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anor277
Dec 21, 2016

The term is #"immiscible"#.

Explanation:

Immiscible liquids, e.g. water and ether, hexanes and methanol, are more or less insoluble in each other, and often used to partition and separate a solute across a liquid/liquid boundary.

Solvents that dissolve in each other are termed #"miscible"#. Examples of miscible liquids include, #"water/methanol; hexanes/ethanol;"#
#"diethyl ether/hexanes"#.

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