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incompatible /in·com·pat·i·ble/ (-kom-pat´i-b'l) not suitable for combination, simultaneous administration, or transplantation; mutually repellent.
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.
2. Producing an undesirable effect when used in combination with a particular substance, as a medicine in combination with alcohol.
3. Not suitable for combination or administration because of immunological differences, as blood types.

incom·pat·i·bili·ty (nkm-pt-bl-t) n.

incompatible
not suitable for combination, simultaneous administration, or transplantation; mutually repellent.

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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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