Synonyms:
insoluble, indissoluble
Meaning: (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved
Usage examples
Sulphate of copper is a valuable antidote, both as an emetic and as forming an insoluble compound with phosphorus.
There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble.
It may also occur as the amorphous non-poisonous variety, a red opaque infusible substance, insoluble in carbon disulphide.
Ordinary phosphorus is soluble in oil, alcohol, ether, chloroform, and carbon disulphide; insoluble in water. It is much used in rat poisons, made into a paste with flour, sugar, fat, and Prussian blue.
Again, the active materials of the electrodes being insoluble in, and absolutely unaffected by, the electrolyte, are not liable to any sort of chemical deterioration by action of the electrolyte--no matter how long continued....