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Well if your talking about in science it's something created by mixing two ingredients known as products to get a chemical or physical reaction.

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A reactant is a starting material that is about to undergo a chemical change. When looking at the written chemical equation, the reactants are to the left of the central arrow.

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a chemical mixed with another to produce a product of a chemical reaction. For example, in water, two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atoms are the reactants. Water is the product.

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A reactant is a substance or compound consumed during a chemical reaction. To view the source of this information and more information go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactant

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