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Topic: CHEMISTRY

reactive

 adjective
     
re‧ac‧tive
1 reacting to events or situations rather than starting or doing new things yourself:
a reactive foreign policy
2 technicalHC a reactive substance changes when it is mixed with another substance:
a highly reactive chemical
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