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chemistry

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions [syn: chemical science ] the way two individuals relate to each other; "their chemistry was wrong from the beginning ...

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"Chemistry" is the sixth episode of the American television series, Smash . The episode aired on March 12, 2012.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a chemistry/French etc exam ▪ I knew I wouldn’t pass the German exam. a chemistry/French etc examination ▪ Most of the pupils passed their science examination with flying colours. a history/chemistry/law etc degree ▪ ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Natural \Nat"u*ral\ (?; 135), a. [OE. naturel, F. naturel, fr. L. naturalis, fr. natura. See Nature .] Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "alchemy," from chemist + -ry ; also see chemical (adj.). The meaning "natural physical process" is 1640s, and the scientific study not so called until 1788. The figurative sense of "instinctual attraction or affinity" is attested slightly earlier, ...

Usage examples of chemistry.

I am certain of it, and neither chemistry nor reasoning, nor aesthetics will give the least explanation.

Ham insisted Chemistry was a pure-blooded, blue-blooded member of, the strain anthropopithecus troglodyte.

He revolutionized chemistry by emphasizing that atoms have relative weights and that these relative weights can be measured.

On the contrary, his idea was significant because it was a theory that explained how chemical compounds are formed and because the idea of atoms with different relative weights made it possible to turn chemistry into a quantitative science.

A remedy selected according to the principle of similars is a homeopathic remedy, but a remedy which is homogeneous with the mineral substances of the organism, and the use of which is founded on physiological chemistry, is a biochemic remedy.

Their bioelectric fields were down fifteen percent from the recommended human level, while their metabolism and general blood chemistry showed signs of advanced energy depletion.

Iyevenski and a few other surviving Ovchinnikov disciples at the Shemyakin Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow.

Moscow-region institutes into the Enzyme project: the Institute of Protein, the Institute of Molecular Biology, the Institute of BioChemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, and the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry.

Pig was always wired, boringly religious about his heterocyclic chemistry: a bioresearch geek.

Can I integrate the minuscule observations of this behaviour of the chicks I work with and the chemistry of their brains with such richness of evocation?

Chemistry was, generally speaking, a science for businesspeople, for those who worked with coal and potash and dyes, and not gentlemen, who tended to be drawn to geology, natural history, and physics.

If I were to persist in treating chicks as Descartes might have wanted me to - and indeed as some schools of behaviourist psychologists would still maintain - as insentient machines, mere logic circuits based on carbon chemistry instead of the more reliable silicon chemistry of the computer, I would soon cease to be able to design sensible experiments or interpret the results that I obtain.

Chemistry and Physics only deal with them as exhibiting statistical complexes of the effects of their more intimate laws.

Ressler recognizes: Linus Pauling, Nobel laureate, supreme figure of American chemistry, he of vitamin C and the covalent bond, structural elucidator of any number of organic molecules, and nip-and-tuck runner-up to the three-dimensional solution of DNA.

It was in Babylonia that music, medicine and mathematics were developed, where the first libraries were created, the first maps drawn, where chemistry, botany and zoology were conceived.