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chemical mechanism

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Noun1.chemical mechanismchemical mechanism - the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction; "he determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions"
mechanism
biochemical mechanism - a chemical mechanism involved in vital processes occurring in living organisms
chemical action, chemical change, chemical process - (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved


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In this first demonstration that genes were chemicals, Morgan opened a line of research that led, in only a few decades, to our current understanding of DNA-based, chromosomal inheritance as the chemical mechanism for the inheritance of variation from generation to generation on which Darwinian natural selection depends.
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The chemical mechanism underlying the peroxide vulcanization of elastomers is relatively simple (figure 3).
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The chemical mechanism is probably similar to the one by which UV radiation makes ozone in the upper atmosphere, says Attri.
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