Contact
React
React verb - To act or behave in response (as to a stimulus or influence).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The dragons work kind of like a spitting cobra, spraying the chemicals at a target, and when the chemicals come into contact with each other they react and ignite.
- Being in such close contact with beings being slaughtered en mass, the Jedi are stunned and can't react in time to prevent Thrawn shooting out all of the weapon stations, killing most of them.
Source: Divide and Conquer - At one point, the Perry Rhodan universe ran on the implicit assumption that matter and antimatter would only react with each other if matching elements and anti-elements came into contact.
Source: Artistic License Chemistry
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