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Intercalation
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intercalation [in‚tər·kə′lā·shən]
(geology)
A layer located between layers of different character.

Intercalation 

the appearance of new structures and processes in an already formed life system. Examples of intercalation are the articulation of new stages alongside already existing ones in the process of individual development, the formation of secondary venules between the main ones in the wings of insects, and the formation of additional silica in diatomaceous algae.



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Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow rekindled my interest in literary studies and encouraged my own tendency to intercalate popular and academic sources.
PhytoMedical believes a more effective anti-cancer strategy is to design molecules ("bis-intercalators") that can intercalate simultaneously at two DNA sites, thereby further increasing the binding between the drug and the DNA of specific cancer cells in order to stop their replication and ultimately resulting in the death of the cancer cell.
Basically, polymer-clay composites are divided into three general types: phase-separated, conventional micro composites, intercalated nanocomposites (in which polymer molecules intercalate into clay galleries), and exfoliated nanocomposites, in which clay particles are separated into individual layers and dispersed evenly in the polymer matrix [3-5].
 
 
 
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