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unˈmix, v. [un-2 3.] a. trans.
1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. 7 After you haue wel vn⁓mixed, and purged it from the saied Honnie wyth hote water. 1661Sir C. Cotterell tr. Calprenède's Cassandra ii. i. (1676) 120 The eye of the mind lost itself in the care of un⁓mixing them. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. lii. 421 How would you unmix them? 1973Sci. Amer. Apr. 115/2 That is why it is easy to mix cream into a cup of coffee but difficult to unmix the two. b. intr.
1968Physical Rev. Lett. XX. 318/1 These particles will phase ‘unmix’ causing the appearance of a third wave, ‘the echo’. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth i. 18/1 A high temperature feldspar..frequently ‘unmixes’ if cooled slowly to form a crystal composed of discrete blebs or laminae of two compositionally different feldspars. 1980Phil. Mag. A. XLI. 637 For situations in which a true thermodynamic equilibrium can be attained, the equilibrating species unmix, producing a heterogeneous composition. |