sekoittuvista

Sekoittuvista is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective sekoittuva, which denotes the property of being able to mix or to be mixed. In scientific and technical Finnish, sekoittuva describes substances that are miscible with each other. The form sekoittuvista is the elative plural form (applying to more than one item) and is typically used with a plural noun in elative position, for example sekoittuvista nesteistä, meaning “from miscible liquids” or “of the miscible liquids,” depending on the sentence structure.

Usage and meaning in context

In chemistry and related fields, sekoittuva is used to classify liquids or other substances by their mutual solubility. When two or more liquids are sekoittuvia, they mix in all proportions to form a single homogeneous phase. The opposite concept is sekoittumaton or sekoittumattomat, describing substances that are immiscible. The adjective sekoittuva has several inflected forms to agree with number and case; sekoittuvista is one such form used with plural nouns in the elative case.

Grammar and related terms

Sekoittuva derives from the verb sekoittaa (“to mix”) or sekoittua (“to become mixed”). It is distinct from featurizations such as sekoittunut (mixed, having already mixed) and sekoittuva itse asiassa, which may appear in different grammatical constructions. In everyday Finnish, the term is less common outside technical writing, where precise description of solubility and phase behavior is needed.

Examples

- Sekoittuvista nesteistä muodostuu homogeeninen liuos. (A homogeneous solution forms from miscible liquids.)

- Nesteet ovat sekoittuvia toisiinsa. (The liquids are miscible with each other.)

See also

Linguistic forms of Finnish participles, miscibility terminology in chemistry, Finnish grammar on adjectives and participles.