1873 W. Elderhorst (ed. 4) iii. 83 The slag, containing uranium and other non-reducible oxides..is dissolved by warming it with a little aqua regia.
1899 W. James ix. 82 As teachers, it is the fact of association that practically concerns you,..let its laws be reducible, or non-reducible, to one.
1968 91 673 A posterior decompressive procedure became the recognized treatment of choice for non-reducible dislocations with cord compression.
1992 101 169 Some of a compound system's dynamical properties are composed of and determined by the relevant properties of its subsystems, i.e. are reducible, while some are non-reducible.