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		DrScientist 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editin... soluble has two meanings. - able to dissolve in solvent - able to be solved.

abcd_f 3 months ago | [–]

Is the second meaning archaic?

DrScientist 3 months ago | | [–]

How old does it need to be to be archaic?

Here is a use in the title of a quite famous popular science book from the 1960's.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Art-of-the-Soluble/Medawar/p/b...

jakeydus 3 months ago | [–]

Huh, TIL!

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