substitutional

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Finally, in the bulk absorber at the atomic scale, elemental vacancy and substitutional defects, such as VCu, In and CuZn, significantly affect doping and recombination, and consequently device performance.

From Nature • Aug. 15, 2012

The Calvinistic dogma makes it denote the satisfaction of the law of retributive justice by a substitutional anguish.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

And the minds of the people thus thrown loose from their former ties, are not arrested and recovered by any substitutional ones formed while those were decaying.

From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by Foster, John

It seems, then, reasonable to assume that if the variations from symmetry show constantly recurring tendencies, they represent the chief factors in such a substitutional symmetry or balance, supposing it to exist.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

Therefore, it may be considered that the existence of a perfect substitutional symmetry has been established, inasmuch as it has been shown to be almost invariably present in the types examined.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo