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What is a dissociation?

What is a dissociation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
  2. (chemistry) The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances.
  3. (psychology) A defence mechanism where certain thoughts or mental processes are compartmentalised in order to avoid emotional stress to the conscious mind.
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By this method, they were able to measure separately the formation and dissociation rates for a few applied voltages.
In the filial generation, haplosis occurs as a result of nuclear dissociation to produce uninucleate spores infectious to larval mosquitoes.
These collisions result in subsequent fragmentation and product ions that are a direct consequence of dissociation of the precursor ion.
But California's decades of dissociation from reality are catching up with it.
In Hobsbawm's case, its interest lies not in any dissociation, but in the connection between political loyalty and social accommodation.
There is an atomic will towards binding and dissociation, driven by thermodynamics and electrochemistry.

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