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Symbol
Meaning
Action
& AND Finds only documents containing all of the specific words or phrases. For example, "art & science" finds documents with both the word "art" and the word "science". | OR Finds documents containing at least one of the specified words or phrases. For example, "art | science" finds documents containing either "art" or "science". The found documents could contain both, but do not have to. ! AND NOT Excludes documents containing the specific word or phrase. For example, "art ! science" finds documents containing "art" but not containing "science". As with the & and | operators, ! must appear between two terms. [ ] Grouping Used to group portions of boolean queries together for more complicated queries. For example, "ligand & [steric | electronic] ! art" finds documents containing "ligand" and either "steric" or "electronic but not "art".
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