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STOICHIOMETRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(chemistry) the relation between the quantities of substances that take part in a reaction or form a compound (typically a ratio of whole integers)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("stoichiometry" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))
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)
Derivation:
stoichiometric (of or relating to stoichiometry)
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