selectivity
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With the improved reactor design, that selectivity rose to approximately 97%.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
That combination of high sensitivity and molecular selectivity could make the technology valuable for detecting impurities that are difficult or expensive to identify using conventional methods.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
If Syracuse is willing to concede some prestige and selectivity, “they have more degrees of freedom, but they also lose that social position that they spent a long time trying to achieve.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Their new strategy, recently reported in Nature, addresses a long-standing problem involving electron-transfer selectivity and could make a wide range of previously inaccessible coupling reactions possible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
If this sort of selectivity had been possible for Billy, he might have chosen as his happiest moment his sundrenched snooze in the back of the wagon.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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