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What is a substituent?

What is a substituent? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed
  2. (grammar) pro-form
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The highly electronegative fluorine substituent stabilizes this intermediate much more than do the other halogens and causes it to be formed faster.
In the substituent in your pepper mill to your usual mixture 5 bays perfectly accompany fish and meat cooked on the barbecue.
The substituent chain present in Anacardic acid, cardol and cardanol is not a homogeneous, diolefin but is a mixture of olefins of different degree of unsaturation.
Results from real-time FTIR spectroscopic studies indicated that ethoxy was less reactive than methoxy substituent.
In an interstitial solid solution, substituent atoms or ions are added to void spaces between normal atomic sites.
Reactive dyes utilize a chromophore attached to a substituent that is capable of directly reacting with the fiber substrate.

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