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Incompatibly

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in·com·pat·i·ble  (nkm-pt-bl)
adj.
1. Incapable of associating or blending or of being associated or blended because of disharmony, incongruity, or antagonism: incompatible views on religion.
2. Impossible to be held simultaneously by one person: the incompatible offices of prosecutor and judge.
3. Logic That cannot be simultaneously true; mutually exclusive.
4. Medicine
a. Producing an undesirable effect when used in combination with a particular substance: a medication that is incompatible with alcohol.
b. Not immunologically compatible: incompatible blood types.
n.
One that is incompatible.

incom·pati·ble·ness n.
incom·pati·bly adv.
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Adv.1.incompatibly - without compatibility
compatibly - with compatibility

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Rb-Sr) that behave incompatibly during mantle melting, Os is compatible and Re is incompatible; their chalcophyic/siderophilic geochemistry suggests they are mostly stored in the core (Hauri, 2002).
Beryllium is best enriched in magmas through the process of fractional crystallization whereby Be behaves incompatibly, is not taken up in a crystallizing mineral phase, and is thereby enriched in the residual melt fraction.
Similarly, Ba behaves incompatibly in mafic magmas but concentrations either level off of fall in highly differentiated rocks.
 
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