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This discovery became the foundation of a subdiscipline of chemistry known as stereochemistry, which is the study of the spatial arrangement of atoms within molecules.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2022

These types of Lewis acid-base reactions are examples of a broad subdiscipline called coordination chemistry—the topic of another chapter in this text.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

I did sign the book contract I had long coveted: Harvard University Press would be perfect for reaching scholars outside my own subdiscipline within history.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2014

Paleontology embraces this challenge of record failure with the subdiscipline of taphonomy, through which we seek to understand the preservation process of materials of potential biologic interest.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 23, 2014

There is currently an entire subdiscipline in biology devoted to the study of cooperation and altruism in .

From Scientific American • Sep. 13, 2011