chem

Examples

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• The young chem is excited to present her findings at the annual scientific conference.

• Lost my sense of smell in a chem lab explosion years ago.

  The Big Year (2011)

• That's one of the advantages of working in a chem lab.

  Monkey Shines (1988)

• You're in chem lab with Julian Wilson, right?

  Ice Princess (2005)

• Chem department, I need 500 ccs of Thorazine - pumped into room three.

  The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

• Danishefsky founded the Chem, Bio, Bio-Chem Program at MSKCC when there was none.

  Blog text (17)

• Knowing that this level of awareness or suspicion could seriously jeopardize the scenario, Hadley bolts to a microphone where he says, "Chem department, I need 500 ccs of Thorazine pumped into room 3!"

  Blog text (22)

• The chem in the lab carefully mixed the solutions to conduct the experiment.

Synonyms

S

scientist

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∞ 2.1

A person who studies science and does experiments to find new facts

is an informal word used only for workers in chemistry

C

chemist

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53 3.0

A scientist who studies chemicals and how they react

is the informal, casual word used for that professional

C

chymist

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• Archaic

9.9

A person who studies substances and how they change

is a modern informal term rather than an old spelling

Compounds

C

chem lab

5 2.3

A room where students do chemistry experiments at school or college

Surface Forms

Etymology