metathesis


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a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence

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a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)

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Keywords: Balochi, Makurani, Metathesis, Phonology, Rakhshani.
In collaboration with several partners, including the special contribution of Versalis under a strategic partnership started in early 2014, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc.--a high-growth company that creates novel specialty chemicals from natural oils--has successfully completed scale-up of a second-generation biorefinery technology of the company's olefin metathesis technology, utilizing ethylene and natural oil feedstocks.
In contrast, the National Puzzlers' League calls this a metathesis. There are 325 different possibilities, from able-bale to hazy-hayz, the latter mysteriously defined in Webster's Second Unabridged as "an accidental dignity as of a feminine planet in a feminine sign".
Autorepair reaction via a Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP) is promoted by the catalyst embedded in the matrix [9-19].
Two new hydrophobic ionic liquids were synthesized through ion exchange metathesis and characterized through spectral data and thermogravimetric analysis.
These products are transformed by metathesis to form phenolic dimers.
McKinty has created a new catalyst for olefin metathesis, a key step in making pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, polymers, biofuels and much more.
The trick, these Brits discovered, is to let them assemble themselves via a process known as ring-closing olefin metathesis.
Olefin metathesis applied to cellulose derivatives-synthesis, analysis, and properties of new crosslinked cellulose plastic films.
The self-repair function is based on the metathesis polymerization of ENB activated by Hoveyda-Grubbs' first generation catalyst.
As depicted in Scheme 1, thienylmagnesium halides have been generally prepared by Grignard metathesis (Method A, McCullough method) [15].