displacement reaction

Noun
  1. (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound (synset 113488427)
    referred to in: chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
    is a type of: chemical reaction, reaction - (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others
    same as: displacement

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