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The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.

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The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances.

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the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia

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A defence mechanism where certain thoughts or mental processes are compartmentalised in order to avoid emotional stress to the conscious mind.

In simple substances like potassium chloride it seems evident that one kind of dissociation only is possible.

These colour changes are connected with a dissociation of the molecules.

They are yellowish-red solids, which behave as weak bases, their salts undergoing hydrolytic dissociation in aqueous solution.

The dissociation theory was originally suggested by the osmotic pressure relations.

While it seems clear that the conduction in this case is carried on by ions similar to those of solutions, since Faraday's laws apply equally to both, it does not follow necessarily that semi-permanent dissociation is the only way to explain the phenomena.

The evidence in favour of dissociation in the case of solutions does not apply to fused salts, and it is possible that, in their case, a series of molecular interchanges, somewhat like Grotthus's chain, may represent the mechanism of conduction.

In the case of substances like ammonia and acetic acid, where the dissociation is very small, I - a is nearly equal to unity, and only varies slowly with dilution.

Van 't Hoff's formula is equivalent to taking the frequency of dissociation as proportional to the square of the concentration of the molecules, and the frequency of recombination as proportional to the cube of the concentration of the ions.

When the solutions of two substances are mixed, similar considerations to those given above enable us to calculate the resultant changes in dissociation.

The two solutions, then, will so act on each other when mixed that they become isohydric. Let us suppose that we have one very active acid like hydrochloric, in which dissociation is nearly complete, another like acetic, in which it is very small.

The dissociation theory gives an immediate explanation of the fact that, in general, no heat-change occurs when two neutral salt solutions are mixed.

Since the salts, both before and after mixture, exist mainly as dissociated ions, it is obvious that large thermal effects can only appear when the state of dissociation of the products is very different from that of the reagents.

But his best known contribution to general chemistry is his work on the phenomena of reversible reactions, which he comprehended under a general theory of " dissociation.

We may therefore reasonably assume that the limiting values of the specific heats at zero pressure do not vary with the temperature, provided that the molecule is stable and there is no dissociation.

While working on the olefines he noticed that a change takes place in the density of the vapour of amylene hydrochloride, hydrobromide, &c., as the temperature is increased, and in the gradual passage from a gas of approximately normal density to one of half-normal density he saw a powerful argument in favour of the view that abnormal vapour densities, such as are exhibited by sal-ammoniac or phosphorus pentachloride, are to be explained by dissociation.

He had an affinity for opioid receptors and a slow dissociation from them.

Dissociation of core particles into open core and genomic RNA The open core particles devoid of genomic dsRNAs were isolated by centrifugation through CsTFA.

They may have a role in dissociation of tubulin dimers.

This in turn involves bond dissociation, gain of an electron by the halogen, and hydration of the halide ion.

In some cases, effective reorganization can decrease task difficulty, implying a dissociation between frontal activity and basic memory demand.

For the removal of H atoms, the method of sustained off-resonance irradiation collision-induced dissociation (SORI-CID) in FT-ICR has been applied.

If the effect is only one way we may call it a partial dissociation.

Consistent with the model, however, a sensitive psycholinguistic test, a lexical decision task, revealed a double dissociation between word groups.

Our results show a strong dissociation between two different tasks.

They seem to take both too seriously to allow such dissociation, and they want to use each for the enrichment of the other.

We are using FT-ICR MS (and specifically electron capture dissociation) along with molecular modeling to probe their gas phase structures.

In effect, it achieves its results by temporarily raising or lowering the bond dissociation energy.

Published in January 2005 " Are there two qualitatively distinct forms of dissociation?

The term we are using here should more accurately be called the " lattice dissociation enthalpy " .

This involves looking at catalytic dissociation of ammonia to hydrogen and nitrogen and also the selective catalytic oxidation of ammonia to nitrogen and water.

Dissociation of virtual photons in events with a leading proton at HERA.

Arrhenius is specially associated with the development of the theory of electrolytic dissociation, and his great paper on the subject, Recherches sur la conductibilite galvanique des electrolytes - (1) conductibilite galvanique des solutions aqueuses extremement diluees, (2) theorie chimique des electrolytes, was presented to the Stockholm Academy of Sciences in 1883.

So far back as 1850 he also suggested a view which, in a modified form, is of fundamental importance in the modern theory of ionic dissociation, for, in a paper on the theory of the formation of ether, he urged that in an aggregate of molecules of any compound there is an exchange constantly going on between the elements which are contained in it; for instance, in hydrochloric acid each atom of hydrogen does not remain quietly in juxtaposition with the atom of chlorine with which it first united, but changes places with other atoms of hydrogen.

The abnormal specific heats of the halogen elements may be due to a loosening of the atoms, a preliminary to the dissociation into monatomic molecules which occurs at high temperatures.

The ordinary laws of chemical equilibrium have been applied to the case of the dissociation of a substance into its ions.

Electrolytic or ionic dissociation is the separation of a substance in solution into ions (see Electrolysis; Solution).

In the case of electrolytes we can go further, and calculate the diffusion constant itself from the theory of electrolytic dissociation (see Electric conduction, § In Liquids).

This study investigated one aspect of the retting process, the dissociation of these fibers from the core of the stem.

Some people also experience dissociation, which means they feel as though they are separate from their own body watching the trauma unfold once again.

Dissociative disorders-A group of mental disorders in which dissociation is a prominent symptom.

Because social and pragmatic deficits are core characteristics of autism, it is important to look for dissociation among language, social adaptive skills, and motor behavior.

Children with a specific learning disability, like children with severe mental retardation or autism, may present with dissociation in developmental skills.

Also, lack of academic success at school can reflect dissociation between academic achievement and general intellectual abilities.

The Chemistry of the Sun (1887) is an elaborate treatise on solar spectroscopy based on the hypothesis of elemental dissociation through the intensity of solar heat.

The result of this treatment is that the comparatively heavy oils undergo dissociation, as shown by the experiments of Thorpe and Young, into specifically lighter hydrocarbons of lower boiling points, and the yield of kerosene from ordinary crude petroleum may thus be greatly increased.

Deviation from this rule indicates molecular dissociation or association.

The primary products of the dissociation of albumins are the albumoses, characterized by not being coagulable by heat, more soluble than the albumins, having a far less complex composition, and capable of being " salted (7) out " by certain salts, and the peptones, similar to albumoses but not capable of being " salted out "; moreover, peptones are less complex than albumoses.

It is possible that in complicated organic substances we might have two kinds of dissociation, electrical and non-electrical, occurring simultaneously, while the possibility of the association of molecules accompanied by the electrical dissociation of some of them into new parts should not be overlooked.

In neutral, and still more in acid solutions, the dissociation of the indicator is practically nothing, and the liquid is colourless.

The dissociation theory refers this to the action of electric charges carried by the free ions.