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metathesis [mə′tath·ə·səs] (chemistry) A reaction involving the exchange of elements or groups as in the general equation AX + BY → AY + BX. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences describes metathesis as a dance that capitalizes on the double bonds of the participants. announce the expansion of a development agreement for Cargill's use of Materia's proprietary olefin metathesis technology for converting biobased oils to industrial chemicals, feedstocks and consumer products. Rosten's humor depends on comic dialect, the solecism, the pun, the malapropism, the glib quip, slang, genteelisms, oxymorons, metathesis, litotes, synecdoche, polyptoton, mimesis, paronomasia, metonymy, and the "malaprintism," as he develops the mock heroic situation comedy of his adult ESL students. |
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