react against something

Examples of reacting

reacting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The evolution of catalysts had to be in parallel with the evolution of the molecular species reacting.
They belong to a different branch, characterised by the presence of microscopic coherence in the reacting system.
This latter finding indicates that there is more going on in the grassroots parties than just members reacting to the election.
This suggests that cercariae released into snail tissue containing cadmium are possibly reacting to the unfavourable environment by encysting before emergence into the water occurs.
Chapter 5 deals with teachers evaluating the performance of their pupils and reacting to the assessment of examiners, adjudicators, critics and agents.
She defines relaxation as: that condition in which we have the greatest capacity of reacting.
That he was reacting to them is most evident from the titles of some of his works that are, unhappily, lost to us.
A detailed understanding of the linear stability characteristics of compressible reacting mixing layers will be of aid in mixing enhancement.
Adroitly reacting to the newfound opportunity, conservative intellectuals penned their writings accordingly.
Our seeing and reacting to it as a stop sign is the result of a particular training and education.
Energetically, catalysis is entirely entropic, indicating an important role of solvent reorganization, substrate positioning, and/or orientation of the reacting groups within the active site.
Energetically, catalysis is entirely entropic, indicating an important role of substrate positioning, orientation of the reacting groups within the active site, and solvent reorganization.
Instead, the concern is with reacting to what is considered a temporary issue.
This study is the only comprehensive study, of which we know, of the inviscid spatial stability of a reacting compressible mixing layer.
One possibility is that the inner retina is reacting to the loss of outer retinal activity.
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