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  • adjective That involves or causes displacement

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  • My group has studied molecules as diverse as the platinocyanides, Chevrel phases, transition metal carbides, displacive transitions in NiAs, MnP and NiP, new metallic forms of carbon, the making and breaking of bonds in the solid state and many other systems.

    Roald Hoffmann - Autobiography 1982

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