MEANING
A substance consumed or changed as it participates in a chemical reaction.
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- chemical reactant
- limiting reactant
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One reactant remained after the process stopped.
The shortage of a reactant limited the reaction.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular reactant; plural reactants. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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