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Noun(1) a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence(2) 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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(1) X sometimes alternates with sk by metathesis : Manx for earlier Mansk; piskey as a variant of pixie; ax as a dialect form of ask.(2) In South Africa, interest in alkene metathesis research is growing.(3) The Nobel prize in Chemistry this year goes to Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock, and Yves Chauvin (Institut Francais du Petrole) for the development of metathesis .(4) he attributes the metathesis of the last two sounds to the Creole tendency to end words with a vowel(5) It looks like Safire is assuming a metathesis and then a reshaping to match other cular words, which would supply a/y.(6) We are dealing here with a phenomenon called metathesis (pronounced mih-TATH-uh-sis), the switching of two adjacent sounds within a word.(7) This was made by metathesis of 1-ethyl - 3-methylimidazolium [emim] with Ag [BF 4] in methanol.(8) Stress errors and phoneme substitutions or metatheses not attributable to dialect or articulation, however, were considered incorrect.(9) Both thermal (in solid state) and metathetical polymerization (using WCl6 / tetramethyltin catalyst and chlorobenzene solvent) of bisnadimides was carried out.(10) The metathetical process to generate isocyanates allows also for facile formation of sterically demanding aryl isocyanide, by a deoxygenation route.(11) The present invention relates to a heterogenic rhenium containing catalyst suited particularly to the metathetic reactions of hydrocarbons.(12) Methanol extraction of the as-synthesized nanocrystals from the metathetical reaction of GaCl3 with (Na / K) 3As resulted in surface derivatization of the nanoparticles in which methanol capped GaAs quantum dots were obtained.(13) There is a great deal of debate as to whether or not stimuli that are part of a metathetic continuum can be explained by the Power Law.(14) Now it is certainly possible to rig up such a metathetical reaction where the ions change partners and both precipitate!(15) I've never done an olefin metathesis reaction , which means that the trend started without me and will leave without me.(16) Here are a few more words that are metathetic forms of former words.
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1. double decomposition


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