chemistry
- noun
- /ˈkɛmɪstri/
- Understanding the chemistry of water is essential for studying its properties and reactions.
- water chemistry
- soil chemistry
- blood chemistry
So you do go through these huge hormone changes that literally alter your brain chemistry like it's.
- So you do go through these huge hormone changes that literally alter your brain chemistry like it's.
- And I don't mean that in a horrible way, but you are changing the brain chemistry for setting goals.
- All the cells are bathed in that chemistry.
- We have evolved to have those kinds of substances that we can take to help balance out chemistries.
- They had found a way to engineer the our body chemistry to create feelings of ecstasy and euphoria.
Examples
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In order to build new materials, scientists must consider the chemistry of the substances they are using.
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Safety monitoring included complete blood count, chemistry profile, urinalysis, pregnancy test, and medical history.
Academic text (1996) -
Given human body chemistry, the body chemistry of life forms like us.
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The foundation of body chemistry.
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Over the years, we humans have learned to understand the chemistry, how to extract the iron.
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The organism is able to maintain the high body temperatures needed for its internal chemistry.
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"But," Barbra went on, "do you have any idea how complex our body chemistry is?"
Fiction book (2001) -
However, chemical companies use three criteria when determining the best chemistry for a facility.
Academic text (1998) -
Current toys are made of a graceless material, the product of chemistry, not of nature.
Academic text (1998) -
So we're really changing the chemistry of the brain and the immune system when we change our gut microbes.
Synonyms
The parts and amounts that make up something
Compounds
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Study of how chemicals behave and change using physics and math
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The study of materials like metals and salts not based on carbon
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A room for doing experiments with chemicals for teaching or research
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The study of chemicals and how they help grow crops and care for soil
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The part of science that studies how substances act where two materials meet, like liquid and air
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chemistry shares its root with alchemy, a word for the practice of mixing and changing substances, so the 'chemistry' of something is about what it is made of and how it behaves.