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chemical affinities
n. (chemical affinity English)
Usage examples of "chemical affinities".
In the table at the head of this discussion, the salts are arranged according to their chemical affinities.
Thus copper sits on top of silver and silver sits on top of gold because of their chemical affinities as metals, while helium, neon, and argon are in a column made up of gases.
The explanation of the phenomenon was evidently that the water at this spot found chemical affinities in the upper air, and consequently forsook the ground.
Here lived creatures who breathed diluted oxygen, that curious gas with too many chemical affinities, as if it were as emotional as the creatures dependent on it.