Meanings
verb
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of counterattract
Hence, the oxygen vacancy loses some of its “negative charge” and takes on a “positive character” that counterattracts the leakage of negative charge.
1967: the Chemical Society of Great Britain and the University of Nottingham, The alkali metals: an International Symposium held at Nottingham on 19 ᵗʰ–22 ⁿᵈ July 1966; organised jointly by the University of Nottingham and the Chemical Society, № 22, page 434 (self-published by the Chemical Society)
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