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  2. Chemical polarity - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, polarity is a separation of electric charge leading to a molecule or its chemical groups having an electric dipole moment, with a negatively charged end and a positively charged end. Polar molecules must contain one or more polar bonds due to a difference in electronegativity between the bonded atoms.

  3. Umpolung - Wikipedia

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    In organic chemistry, umpolung (German: [ˈʔʊmˌpoːlʊŋ]) or polarity inversion is the chemical modification of a functional group with the aim of the reversal of polarity of that group. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This modification allows secondary reactions of this functional group that would otherwise not be possible. [ 3 ]

  4. Solvatochromism - Wikipedia

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    Positive solvatochromism corresponds to a bathochromic shift (or red shift) with increasing solvent polarity. An example of positive solvatochromism is provided by 4,4'-bis(dimethylamino)fuchsone, which is orange in toluene, red in acetone. The main value of the concept of solvatochromism is the context it provides to predict colors of solutions.

  5. Polarity (international relations) - Wikipedia

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    Polarity in international relations is any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. It describes the nature of the ...

  6. Polarized membrane - Wikipedia

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    Plasma membranes exhibit electrochemical polarity through establishment and maintenance of a resting membrane potential. Cells with polarized plasma membranes must buffer and adequately distribute certain ions, such as sodium (Na +), potassium (K +), calcium (Ca 2+), and chloride (Cl −) to establish and maintain this polarity. Integral ...

  7. Power (international relations) - Wikipedia

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    The former is coercive (example: military invasion) while the latter is attractive (example: broadcast media or cultural invasion). [82] Hard power refers to coercive tactics: the threat or use of armed forces, economic pressure or sanctions, assassination and subterfuge, or other forms of intimidation. Hard power is generally associated to the ...

  8. Cell polarity - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, cell polarity is important during many types of asymmetric cell division to set up functional asymmetries between daughter cells. Many of the key molecular players implicated in cell polarity are well conserved. For example, in metazoan cells, the PAR-3/PAR-6/aPKC complex plays a fundamental role in cell polarity. While the ...

  9. Polarizability - Wikipedia

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    Polarizability usually refers to the tendency of matter, when subjected to an electric field, to acquire an electric dipole moment in proportion to that applied field. It is a property of particles with an electric charge.