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chemistry

chemistry

45 3.0
What a substance is made of and how it behaves
  • noun
  • /ˈkɛmɪstri/
translation icon : química
  • 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.

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Examples

  • In order to build new materials, scientists must consider the chemistry of the substances they are using.

  • 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.

  • The foundation of body chemistry.

  • Over the years, we humans have learned to understand the chemistry, how to extract the iron.

  • The organism is able to maintain the high body temperatures needed for its internal chemistry.

  • "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

composition
vschemistry
99 4.1

The parts and amounts that make up something

focuses on chemical makeup and properties rather than general arrangement

Compounds

organic chemistry
  • Specialized
5 3.7

The study of carbon compounds and how they react

A room where people do chemistry experiments and teach chemistry

A part of a university or college where people teach and study chemistry

physical chemistry
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Study of how chemicals behave and change using physics and math

A part of a university that teaches and studies chemistry

inorganic chemistry
  • Specialized
1 4.2

The study of materials like metals and salts not based on carbon

chemistry laboratory
  • Specialized
3.5

A room for doing experiments with chemicals for teaching or research

4.1

The study of chemicals and how they help grow crops and care for soil

A good connection between two people that helps them get along

nuclear chemistry
  • Specialized
3.8

The study of radioactive materials and reactions in atomic nuclei

surface chemistry
  • Specialized
5.8

The part of science that studies how substances act where two materials meet, like liquid and air

Surface Forms

chemistry singular
chemistries plural

Morphology

chemistry = chemist (transparent) = chemist + ry

Same morphological formation as the disciplinary sense (chemist + -ry); the usage refers to the composition/properties studied by that field.

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.