Contextualizebeta

disproportionation

noun

Etymology

Possibly from disproportion + -ation, or from disproportionate + -ion.

  1. derived from prōportiō — “comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”
  2. derived from proportion
  3. inherited from proporcion
  4. prefixed as disproportion — “dis + proportion”
  5. suffixed as disproportionation — “disproportion + ation”

Definitions

  1. A form of redox reaction in which part of a reactant is oxidized and part of it is…

    A form of redox reaction in which part of a reactant is oxidized and part of it is reduced simultaneously

  2. A reaction wherein a single reactant generates two chemical species which are different…

    A reaction wherein a single reactant generates two chemical species which are different from each other and the initial reactant.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disproportionation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA