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driving force

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driving force [′drīv·iŋ ‚fȯrs]
(chemistry)
In a chemical reaction, the formation of products such as an insoluble compound, a gas, a nonelectrolyte, or a weak electrolyte that enable the reaction to go to completion as a metathesis.


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I think we may say the same of all the habits and aptitudes that we acquire in all of them there has been present throughout some instinctive activity, prompting at first rather inefficient movements, but supplying the driving force while more and more effective methods are being acquired.
The great driving force of the oligarchs is the belief that they are doing right.
 
 
 
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