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Adulteration vs Commixture - What's the difference?

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Adulteration is a related term of commixture.


As nouns the difference between adulteration and commixture

is that adulteration is the action of adulterating, being mixed with extraneous material, illicit substitution of one substance for another while commixture is the act or state of being mixed together; a union or mingling of constituents.

adulteration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of adulterating, being mixed with extraneous material, illicit substitution of one substance for another.

    • Antonyms

    * purification

    commixture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or state of being mixed together; a union or mingling of constituents.
  • *1658': Some apprehended a purifying virtue in fire, refining the grosser '''commixture , and firing out the Æthereall particles so deeply immersed in it. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 4)