This inherent ability of hydrocarbons to bond to themselves is referred to as catenation, the physic-chemical scenario behind this transport behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

This accumulation nevertheless is not so great as to renew their own activity under this defect of stimulus, but yet is in sufficient abundance to increase the associability of the next link of catenation, that is, to actuate the capillaries of the skin with great and perpetual increase of energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The process is called catenation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us] Reference

The transport in the trail is a kind of catenation, the ability of a chemical element to form a long chain-like structure via a series of covalent bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Invention is an operation of the sensorium, by which we voluntarily continue to excite one train of ideas, suppose the design of raising water by a machine; and at the same time attend to all other ideas, which are connected with this by every kind of catenation; and combine or separate them voluntarily for the purpose of obtaining some end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

I say there's a con-catenation of beauty now here this afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference

There are multi catenation and interlock in the electric system, which can avoid mistakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydraulic Press Brake from Africa Machine Tools Supplies] Reference

J65 catenation of ideas, as would never fail to recur when the image of either prefented itfclf to the mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Introduction to the Study and Knowledge of the New Testament] Reference

This field studies the catenation process of carbon, and its ability to form compounds with almost every other element, especially hydrogen.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Fourthly, that if an animal motion be excited by more than one causation, association, or catenation, at the same time, it will be performed with greater energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

This catenation of fear with surprise is owing to our perpetual experience of injuries from external bodies in motion, unless we are upon our guard against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The whole catenation in proper sequence presented itself in one all-embracing vision -- a scene painted on canvas, rather than the logical continuity of a screen picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prairie Flowers] Reference

Thus when vomiting is caused by the stimulus of a stone in the ureter, the sensation of pain seems to be a link of the catenation rather than an efficient cause of the vomiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

But as those sensations were followed by no movements of the system in consequence of them, they gradually ceased to be produced, not being joined to any succeeding link of catenation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Then the heart and arteries which are next in catenation, become less active from the want of sufficient excitement of the sensorial power of association, which previously contributed to actuate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

For the power of volition is perpetually exerted during our waking hours in comparing our passing trains of ideas with our acquired knowledge of nature, and thus forms many intermediate links in their catenation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

These are, first, that those successions or combinations of animal motions, whether they were united by causation, association, or catenation, which have been most frequently repeated, acquire the strongest connection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

When any violent stimulus breaks the passing current or catenation of our ideas, surprise is produced, which is accompanied with pain or pleasure, and consequent volition to examine the object of it, as explained in Zoonomia, Vol.I. Sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference

The time had come when a book of that kind was desirable and perhaps, subconsciously had been waited for, particularly by the women of the war generation and at the moment owed to the catenation of events which had nothing to do with the 'author and had nothing to do with its appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Personal Confession of Faith] Reference

This sickness continued so many hours as to break the catenation of motions, which had daily reproduced the paroxysm; and thus it generally happened, that the whole disease ceased for some weeks or months from one great intoxication, a circumstance not easily to be explained on any other theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Circles and trains of associate motions are also liable to be affected by their catenations with other sensorial powers, as of irritation, or sensation, or volition; which other sensorial powers either thus simply form some of the links of the catenation, or add to the energy of the associated motions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

I shall give for example the flushing of the face after dinner; the capillary vessels of the face increase their actions in consequence of their catenation, not their association, with those of the stomach; which latter are caused to act with greater energy by the irritation excited by the stimulus of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

When fibrous contractions succeed or accompany other fibrous contractions, the connexion is termed association; when fibrous contractions succeed sensorial motions, the connexion is termed causation; when fibrous and sensorial motions reciprocally introduce each other, it is termed catenation of animal motions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference

When fibrous contractions succeed or accompany other fibrous contractions, the connection is termed association; when fibrous contractions succeed sensorial motions, the connexion is termed causation; when fibrous and sensorial motions reciprocally introduce each other, it is termed catenation of animal motions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

All these catenations of animal motions, are liable to proceed some time after they are excited, unless they are disturbed or impeded by other irritations, sensations, or volitions; and in many instances in spite of our endeavours to stop them; and this property of animal motions is probably the cause of their catenation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Hence I conclude, that the small-pox and measles have their critical days, not governed by the times required for certain chemical changes in the blood, which affect or alter the stimulus of the contagious matter, but from the daily increasing or decreasing effect of this lunar link of catenation, as explained in Section XVII.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The quantity of saliva may also be increased beyond what is natural, by the catenation of the motions of these glands with other motions, or sensations, as by an extraneous body in the ear; of which I have known an instance; or by the application of stizolobium, siliqua hirsuta, cowhage, to the seat of the parotis, as some writers have affirmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

When the progressive motions of external bodies make a part of our present catenation of ideas, we attend to the lapse of time; which appears the longer, the more frequently we thus attend to it; as when we expect something at a certain hour, which much interests us, whether it be an agreeable or disagreeable event; or when we count the passing seconds on a stop-watch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Catenate - ref: catenary, catenation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 136] Reference

This process is called catenation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Whence in long trains of catenation flow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference

1. 4. 6. as in those the eruptions on the face were an associated disease with inflammation of the liver or stomach, which they were accustomed to relieve; whereas the itch is not known to have had any previous catenation with other diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Cause of catenation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference