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Noun
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An atom or group that is detached from the rest of a molecule during a reaction.

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group detach reaction atom molecule electrofuge nucleofuge
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loup soup doup coup roup stoup group froup croup recoup aggroup in soup ingroup e group regroup cogroup ungroup rmgroup degroup usegroup
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