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bimolecular, a.|baɪməʊˈlɛkjʊlə(r)| [bi-2.] Involving two molecules.
1899J. Walker Introd. Physical Chem. 256 Saponification of ethereal salts by alkalies affords us an example of a bimolecular reaction. Ibid. 257 A bimolecular reaction, which is, strictly speaking, a balanced action, but proceeds very nearly to an end in aqueous solution, is the formation of urea from ammonium cyanate. 1904J. W. Mellor Chem. Stat. & Dynam. 35 The hydrolysis of ethyl acetate by sodium hydroxide is a bimolecular reaction. 1946Nature 20 July 94/1 Those bimolecular and unimolecular substitutions in which a nucleophilic reagent displaces halogen as halide ion from an alkyl halide. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIX. 3D/1 If a kinetic study shows that two molecules (of the same or of different compounds) react with one another directly, then the reaction is said to be bimolecular. |