What is "reactants"

Usage examples of "reactants".

The conventional way of combining reactants into new products is to brew them together in big vats, usually under heat to supply the reaction energy.

The typical result of this is that only a fraction of the reactants actually go to form the product that was desired, which raises its cost, and the marketing department tries to find profitable applications for the sludge left over.

The result is that all of the reactants involved form useful products, and processes that conventionally need hours, days, or even weeks now take place in milliseconds.

Recombining reactants from a tuned plasma state offers the same possibilities on an industrial scale.

In the chemicals sub complex a range of compounds such as fertilizers, plastics, oils, fuels, and feedstocks for an assortment of dependent industries were also formed primarily by recombining reactants from the plasma state under conditions in which the plasma radiation was tuned to peak in a narrow frequency band that favored the formation of desired molecules and optimized yields without an excess of unwanted by-products.

The reactants don’t always mix at the same rate—or sometimes the bottle doesn’t break open, but only crack.