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nascent

adjective

  1. coming into being; being born
  2. beginning to form, start, grow, or develop: said of ideas, cultures, etc.
  3. Chem. designating or of the state of an element just released from a compound and having unusual chemical activity because atoms of the element have not combined to form molecules: nascent chlorine

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