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Also Known As displacement reaction

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Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
Henry Edward Armstrong
British chemist

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