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FEMTOCHEMISTRY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses
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Hypernyms ("femtochemistry" is a kind of...):
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)