chemical reaction
noun
: a chemical change that occurs when two or more substances combine to form a new substance
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And because there's no actual chemical reaction taking place, the performance proved to be similar for all of the different types of tea.
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 1 Mar. 2025
El Sobrante is the second landfill in Southern California, in recent years, to experience this type of scorching-hot chemical reaction — commonly called an underground landfill fire.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
The need for speed The paper describing the new developments, done by a collaboration between Chinese and German researchers, focuses on one aspect of the challenges posed by lithium-sulfur batteries: the relatively slow chemical reaction between lithium ions and elemental sulfur.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
In this case, though, biology tells us that what looks like a simple chemical reaction can be made incredibly complex.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2025
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 1 Mar. 2025
El Sobrante is the second landfill in Southern California, in recent years, to experience this type of scorching-hot chemical reaction — commonly called an underground landfill fire.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
The need for speed The paper describing the new developments, done by a collaboration between Chinese and German researchers, focuses on one aspect of the challenges posed by lithium-sulfur batteries: the relatively slow chemical reaction between lithium ions and elemental sulfur.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
In this case, though, biology tells us that what looks like a simple chemical reaction can be made incredibly complex.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Chemical reaction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chemical%20reaction. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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