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Displacement

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

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unclassified

Variants

synonym
deracinationdisplacement reactionshiftsupplantingtranslation
plural
Displacements
possessive
Displacement's
pluralpossessive
Displacements'