Definition of Soluble

Sol´u`ble
a.1.Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.
Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire.
- Arbuthnot.
2.Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble.
3.Relaxed; open or readily opened.
Soluble glass
(Chem.) See under Glass.


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explicable, insoluble


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