assortment
[ U ]
the process of mixing混合，拌合
[ U ]
a type of medicine that has to be shaken before being used: 合剂
cough mixture止咳合剂
Roughly half (of) the class are Spanish and the others are a mixture of nationalities.班上大约有一半是西班牙人，其余的则来自各个国家。
The mixture hardens as it cools.混合物冷却时变硬了。
A simple mixture of glucose and water can save lives in many parts of the world.在世界上很多地方，把葡萄糖和水混合在一起就可以用来拯救人的性命。
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.有些人称英语为混种语言，因为英语原来是由古德语和古法语混合而成的。
A mixture of selected funds is an optimum choice for future security and return on investment.同时选择几种基金是确保未来投资安全和投资收益的最佳选择。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Mixing and mixtures
amalgam
be neither one thing nor the otheridiom
blend
blend in/blend into something
blender
blitz
churn
crossed
decoction
emulsion
guaraná
homogeneous mixture
meld
methylate
mingle
mosaic
mush
saturated solution
scramble
synthesis

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Variety and mixtures
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mixture | American Dictionary

mixture
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmɪks·tʃər/
a combination of substances resulting from mixing them together so that they cannot be easily separated:
It’s a highly explosive mixture and has to be handled carefully.
A mixture is also any combination of different things:
Good fashion designers often rely on a mixture of the old and the new.

Examples of mixture

mixture
The methane content in the mixtures varied from 2 to 10 % according to the latest estimations for this molecule in the satellite's atmosphere.
The construction process so far has used an aluminum mandrel for coating either thin multi-layers or mixtures, and then mandrel removal by an aqueous solution.
In chromatic luminance space, this scheme would require that a majority of neurons be preferentially tuned to mixtures of chromaticity and luminance variations. 2!
They could form only imperfect mixtures which gave rise to the different qualities of mixts.
Grinding also has an effect on the spectral properties of many mixtures because the weaker grains are damaged preferentially.
Such mixtures of electrons, ions, and charged grains distinguish themselves from ordinary plasmas in various ways.
No data exist for the effects of basic salts or their mixtures on hosts infected with other endoparasites.
Chirality is generally considered to be indicative of extant life only - chiral mixtures quickly become racemic due to natural diffusion with the outside environment.
Other models are life cycle, intergenerational with retirement, uncertain lifetimes, accidental and deliberate bequests, as well as mixtures of these.
Traditionally, banana stands were very long-lived and far mers often inherited existing cultivar mixtures from preceding generations.
The pre-treatment of cercariae led to a reduced lifespan compared to concurrently administered metal mixtures.
Up to 100 % survival was reached in 1 cm cubes of soil mixtures containing spores in concentrations comparable to that in natural soil.
Furthermore, unreacted amino acids could not be recovered from these reaction mixtures.
Preliminary results on the chemical processing of neat carbon dioxide ices, carbon dioxide-ethylene mixtures, and of carbon monoxidemethane ices are also presented.
Also, hin is higher in gas mixtures with hydrogen.
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Collocations withmixture

mixture

These are words often used in combination with mixture.

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complex mixture
The advantage of our model lies in the fact that we are describing a complexmixture of molecules with an average molecular structure.
curious mixture
The result is a curious mixture.
explosive mixture
In 1977, a waste shaft filled with an explosive mixture of waste and chemicals exploded, spraying radioactive material into the surrounding environment.
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