displacement reaction

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsdisplacement

   Broaderchemical reaction

   chemistry

Questions about displacement reaction

What does displacement reaction mean?

displacement reaction means "(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound".

What is another word for displacement reaction?

Close synonyms include displacement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is displacement reaction a common word?

displacement reaction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.