displacement reaction

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

hypernym	:	chemical reaction, reaction,
definition	:	(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others (noun.process)

domain category	:	chemical science, chemistry,
definition	:	the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions (noun.cognition)