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DISPLACEMENT REACTION
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
Synonyms:
displacement; displacement reaction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("displacement reaction" is a kind of...):
chemical reaction; reaction ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
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