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noun
The ability to disrupt hydrogen bonding, especially within or between biological molecules
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: physical, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From chaos + -tropism, from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “vast chasm, void”). By surface analysis, chao- + -trope + -ism.
