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Definition of Decomposition reaction

1. Noun. (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance.

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Literary usage of Decomposition reaction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nuclear Production Of Hydrogen: Second Information Exchange Meeting, Argonne by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"It has the double advantage to shift the SO3 decomposition reaction and to increase the partial pressure of SO2 in the Bunsen reactor. ..."

2. Accident Precursor Analysis and Management: Reducing Technological Risk by Vicki M. Bier, Howard Kunreuther, James R. Phimister (2004)
"The amount of energy from the chemical decomposition reaction was minimized by eliminating the water necessary for the reaction to occur. ..."

3. Theories of Organic Chemistry by Ferdinand August Karl Henrich (1922)
"... apparent double decomposition reaction by which we obtain a compound in which the radical R(CnH2n+i) is joined to the cyanogen group by means of carbon. ..."

4. Laboratory Manual of General Chemistry: With Exercises in the Preparation of by Arthur Becket Lamb (1916)
"1 That these substances do slow down the decomposition reaction by increasing the viscosity is also indicated by the fact that acetone and similar ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"A question which arises in consideration of the decomposition reaction(s) is whether or not the shorter lived dimer is formed in decomposition of the longer ..."

6. The Physical Chemistry of the Metals by Friedrich Rudolf Schenck (1919)
"97 shows the change of pressure with time, of a given amount of carbon monoxide at constant volume, during the decomposition reaction in the presence of ..."

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