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  • noun physics, chemistry A cluster of atoms which seems to exhibit some of the properties of elemental atoms.
  • noun organic chemistry One or more atoms of a basic structure that are replaced by amplificants in the amplification process of phane nomenclature

Etymologies

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super- +‎ atom

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