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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chemist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dispensing chemist
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
analytical
▪ Still, the book is of great value, especially for analytical chemists in industrial labs.
▪ These chapters are excellent for the conscientious analytical chemist, and can truly be used as a manual / handbook.
▪ They went into partnership as analytical chemists at Lincoln's Inn in 1885.
▪ Quevauviller is very successful in systematically altering analytical chemists to effective means for achieving quality in analytical speciation.
▪ There is certainly a need for a comprehensive guide to materials characterization techniques for industrial scientists who are not analytical chemists.
industrial
▪ Any practising industrial chemist will have great empathy with this and many other of the author's sentiments.
▪ Is it solely of value to the industrial laboratory chemist?
▪ Mond left Heidelberg in 1858 without taking a degree and straight away became a practical industrial chemist.
▪ Her husband had been an industrial chemist, not badly paid, but there never had been much money.
local
▪ It will also be on sale in local chemists and department stores.
▪ I thought about having a wedding list at our local chemist.
▪ Oh dear, Peggy thought - the local chemist.
▪ Lurk in my local chemist, close to the Vatican, and the call seems doomed.
▪ One in every four purchases from your local chemist contains compounds derived from rainforest species.
organic
▪ Biotransformations for organic chemists will take place on 7-9 July 1992 at University of Exeter.
▪ One of the greatest organic chemists in the world and as good as any of the present Harvard bunch.
■ NOUN
research
▪ Long before that, she had been a research chemist.
shop
▪ Two men threw bottles and other material at police cars which chased them after a raid at a chemist shop in Tarporley.
▪ Police cars chased two men after a raid at a chemist shop in Tarporley on Saturday.
▪ He had designed the first chemist shops, and died bequeathing his widow and three daughters some valuable property in Nottingham.
▪ In these cases, prevention might have to be in terms of limiting sales from chemist shops.
■ VERB
buy
▪ Antihistamine tablets can be bought from the chemist without a prescription.
▪ Greene said had he bought it from a chemist in Nice.
▪ I bought some from a chemist, and then I was ready.
▪ When I buy them from the chemist, I pretend they're for some one else.
work
▪ With the advent of fullerenes in macroscopic quantities, chemists have got to work.
▪ Meanwhile in a basement laboratory in Utah two chemists are working on their own and in secret.
▪ When the last war broke out, a very able young academic chemist came to work with me.
▪ The latter half of the book should be essential reading for all chemists and engineers working on chemical plants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hydrogeologist and an isotope chemist provided professional advice to the ongoing geothermal resource study.
▪ Apparently the Disney studio had several requests from chemists for more information on the subject following the actual spectroscopic determination in 1959.
▪ Both are available from Boots, chemists and all good stockists and cost £3.79 each.
▪ Friedrich Paneth, a Viennese chemist and keen amateur photographer, was particularly successful with the process.
▪ It will also be on sale in local chemists and department stores.
▪ Natural science managers usually start as a chemist, physicist, biologist, or other natural scientist.
▪ The Hair Sets range cost from chemists, supermarkets and stores around the country.
▪ This operates 7 days a week with graduate chemist cover.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chemist

Chemist \Chem"ist\, n. [Shortened from alchemist; cf. F. chimiste.] A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chemist

1560s, chymist, "alchemist," from Middle French chimiste, from Medieval Latin chimista, reduced from alchimista (see alchemy). Modern spelling is from c.1790. Meaning "chemical scientist" is from 1620s; meaning "dealer in medicinal drugs" (mostly in British English) is from 1745.

Wiktionary
chemist

n. A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

WordNet
chemist
  1. n. a scientist who specializes in chemistry

  2. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs [syn: pharmacist, druggist, apothecary, pill pusher, pill roller]

Wikipedia
Chemist (disambiguation)

Chemist may refer to:

In all countries:

  • Chemist, a scientist trained in the science of chemistry

In Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and some other countries:

Chemist (album)

Chemist is the thirteenth album by Australian improvised music trio The Necks first released on the Fish of Milk label in 2005 and later on the ReR label internationally. The album features three tracks, titled "Fatal", "Buoyant" and "Abillera", performed by Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton and Tony Buck. The album won the ARIA Music Awards Best Jazz album in 2006.

Chemist

A chemist (from Greek chēm (ía) alchemy + -ist; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchimista) is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms. Chemists carefully measure substance proportions, reaction rates, and other chemical properties. The word 'chemist' is also used to address Pharmacists in Commonwealth English.

Chemists use this knowledge to learn the composition, and properties of unfamiliar substances, as well as to reproduce and synthesize large quantities of useful naturally occurring substances and create new artificial substances and useful processes. Chemists may specialize in any number of subdisciplines of chemistry. Materials scientists and metallurgists share much of the same education and skills with chemists. The work of chemists is often related to the work of chemical engineers, who are primarily concerned with the proper design, construction and evaluation of the most cost-effective large-scale chemical plants and work closely with industrial chemists on the development of new processes and methods for the commercial-scale manufacture of chemicals and related products.

Usage examples of "chemist".

Chemists, work round the clock on variation and synthesis of the apomorphine formulae.

Louis Pasteur, the great French chemist and bacteriologist, became so preoccupied with them that he took to peering critically at every dish placed before him with a magnifying glass, a habit that presumably did not win him many repeat invitations to dinner.

It had been inside the HyperCray that Sergei Iyevenski and his team of bioorganic chemists simulated the process of growing a perfect molecular lattice prior to spending precious investment dollars running hybrid disks through the helifurnaces in the process area.

I need engineers, metallurgists, meteorologists, boatbuilders, chemists, opticians.

The manufacture of this compound is under the special supervision of a competent chemist and pharmaceutist, and it is now put up in bottles wrapped with full directions for its use.

Monk was rated, by those who should know, as one of the brainiest and most skilled chemists actively engaged in that profession.

This became possible only when the German chemist Robert Bunsen and the German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff developed a new method of analyzing chemical samples.

Two add-on paragraphs quoted from a CIA report from Washington: Such capsules were first developed in 1951 by Czechoslovakian chemists and supplied to Communist agents in the Near East areas for several years.

The connection with dowsing is through the magnetic fields set up by electrofiltration currents, a phenomenon familiar to the physical chemist.

With a view to testing the truth of this testimony the contestants submitted the draft to scientific experts, who pronounced the red ink to be a product of eosine, a substance invented by a German chemist named Caro in the year 1874, and after that time imported to this country.

LSD, as a relatively ephebic and clueless organic chemist, while futzing around with ergotic fungi on rye.

These chemists electrolyse either pure calcium chloride, or a mixture of this salt with fluorspar, in a graphite vessel which serves as the anode.

This work compiles a great number of formulas, and rather favors the views of the chemist Dr.

Company Science Center chemist named Charlotte Tresca had proceeded along completely unscientific lines and found that Fuzzies were nuts about only Extee-Three that had been prepared in titanium cookers.

Enough so that Kerio Rouge, whose mother was a tribeswoman from Gabon and whose father was a Parisian chemist, was looked to for advice and comfort.