#mixture
- Air — The invisible, odorless, and tasteless gaseous mixture that makes up the Earth's atmosphere, structurally composed mainly of nitrogen (about 78%) and oxygen (about 21%), along with small amounts of argon, carbon dioxide, and other gases. Figuratively, the term describes an appearance, demeanor, a specific atmosphere of a place, or a gentle breeze of wind.
- Aerozine — A storable, high-performance synthetic liquid fuel used in rocket and space module propulsion, composed of a 50:50 blend of hydrazine and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH). This structural substance is hypergolic (ignites spontaneously upon contact with an oxidizer like dinitrogen tetroxide), being essential for orbital correction engines requiring multiple reliable restarts in a vacuum.
- Common bent — A species of perennial herbaceous plants within the genus Agrostis, family Poaceae, partially synonymous with Agrostis capillaris, popularly known as common bent or colonial bentgrass. It is a major component of natural meadows in temperate zones, highly valued due to its remarkable resilience to poor, acidic, or dry soils; it is intensively used in traditional ornamental turfgrass mixtures for parks and residential gardens.
- Aloi — An archaic and regional technical term used in the past to designate a metallic alloy, specifically the mixture of gold or silver with base metals (such as copper), used for minting coins or crafting jewelry. In a broader structural sense, it represents an obsolete synonym for alloy, indicating the purity degree or fineness of a precious metal processed in old mint workshops.
- Aloiu — A regional, archaic, or popularly corrupted phonetic form for the word 'aloi' (alloy), or used specifically in certain local dialects to designate an inferior quality metallic mixture or a fluid composition. In old documents or the vocabulary of craftsmen from historical mining areas, the term reflects particularities of pronunciation and structural adaptation of borrowed technical terms.
- Alpaga — An obsolete, regional, or French-influenced spelling variant for alpaca or alpacă. In commercial texts and industrial catalogs of the past century, the term designated the fine wool fabric or the silvery-white metal alloy of copper, zinc, and nickel, preserved in technical archives under this alternating graphical form.
- Amalgam — An alloy formed by combining mercury with another metal (such as gold, silver, zinc, or tin), historically used in extractive metallurgy and dentistry for fillings; (figuratively) a confused, heterogeneous, and mismatched mixture of different elements, ideas, or feelings.
- Amatocol — A complex organic chemical compound or colloidal mixture structurally derived from aromatic roots, used experimentally in research laboratories as a binding agent or in macromolecular synthesis. As an adjective, it describes a system or substance containing such a molecular nucleus.
- Mixture — A material system formed by two or more different component substances or elements, physically associated, which retain their individual chemical properties and can be separated through mechanical or physical methods (filtration, distillation etc.). In a figurative sense, it represents a chaotic or harmonious combination of styles, influences, social behaviors, or opinions, or the act of intruding into an external matter.
- Small mixture — A small-scale mixture, tiny blend, or simple combination of substances or ingredients made in a hurry or in play; a diminutive term sometimes used in household or culinary contexts. In a figurative sense, it can indicate a small intrigue, a minor misunderstanding, or an unimportant complication caused by the confusion of facts.
- Azeotrope — A liquid mixture consisting of two or more chemical components that boils at a constant and fixed temperature, maintaining its identical structural composition in both the liquid and vapor phases. Because the generated vapors have exactly the same proportions of substances as the liquid from which they originate, an azeotrope cannot be separated or purified by simple fractional distillation, behaving thermodynamically like a single pure compound and requiring special separation methods, such as extractive azeotropic distillation.
- Azeotropy — A remarkable physicochemical thermodynamic phenomenon characteristic of certain liquid mixtures, consisting in their property to boil at a constant and fixed temperature, generating vapors with a structural composition identical to that of the liquid phase. This phenomenon prevents the separation of components via classical fractional distillation, defining the formation of a minimum or maximum point on the vapor pressure curve and requiring the implementation of specialized separation techniques in chemical engineering.
- Azeotropism — A fundamental property of certain liquid chemical mixtures or copolymerization systems to behave as an unchanging whole during phase transitions or synthesis reactions. In polymer chemistry, azeotropism describes the structural state in which the composition of the monomer mixture remains constant throughout the reaction, giving rise to a copolymer with a perfectly uniform molecular distribution and refined mechanical properties.
- Babelic — Pertaining to the Tower of Babel or Babylon; by extension, characterized by utter confusion, a chaotic mixture of languages, deafening noise, or profound misunderstanding among people; tumultuous, chaotic, or disorderly.