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Neutralisation

noun
1.
A chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt; with strong acids and bases the essential reaction is the combination of hydrogen ions with hydroxyl ions to form water.  Synonyms: neutralisation reaction, neutralization, neutralization reaction.
2.
(euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation).  Synonym: neutralization.
3.
Action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war.  Synonym: neutralization.
4.
Action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action.  Synonyms: counteraction, neutralization.






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"Neutralisation" Quotes from Famous Books



... asunder and drove them as currents in opposite directions. To render the circulation of the current possible, it was necessary to connect the metals by a moist conductor; for when any two metals were connected by a third, their relation to each other was such that a complete neutralisation of the electric motion was the result. Volta's theory of metallic contact was so clear, so beautiful, and apparently so complete, that the best intellects of Europe accepted it as the expression ...
— Faraday As A Discoverer • John Tyndall

... chatted about all the phenomena that had astounded them one after another, especially about the neutralisation of the laws of weight. Michel Ardan, always full of enthusiasm, wished to deduce consequences which ...
— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne

... deliquescent salt. It has a bitter, saline taste; 100 parts consist of 64.5 acid, 35.5 lime, and it is easily recognisable by its taste in the molasses made from sour cane-juice: so that, supposing the cane-juice sour, every pint of acid present would require nearly half a pound of lime for its neutralisation, independent of the quantity required for the tempering or precipitation of the feculencies contained in it, and would result in the formation of one-and-a-half pound of the above mentioned ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds



Words linked to "Neutralisation" :   neutralise, counteraction, chemical reaction, override, reaction, nullification, devastation, euphemism, neutralisation reaction, neutralization reaction, destruction



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