combinable

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It is also possible, that all combinable bodies, compound as well as simple, may enter into the class of ions; but at present it does not seem to me probable.

From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael

Assimilation in plants is the conversion of these inorganic substances—essentially, water, carbonic acid, and some form of combined or combinable nitrogen—into vegetable matter.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

There are sixteen possible combinations of premisses, each of the four types of proposition being combinable with itself and with each of the others.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

The low price and extensive holdings, the want of combinable laborers, and the imperfect organisation of its social fabric, seemed to account for its disasters.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by West, John

Grammar, or something grammatical, also causes the prejudice in people's minds, that the reality of language lies in isolated and combinable words, not in living discourse among expressive organisms, rationally indivisible.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto