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chemical
1. Of or relating to the science of chemistry or to the properties or actions of chemicals.
2. Any substance having a defined molecular composition.
2. Any substance having a defined molecular composition.
For a greater understanding of the chemical elements, see this extensive list.
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(Latin: derived from aceto- plus the suffix -yl; used in naming chemical radicals)
(Greek: hemp; of or pertaining to hemp's chemical components or derivatives.)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, aktis, aktinos ray; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, alumen, a substance having an astringent taste; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; a form of America; radioactive metal)
(Greek: chemical element; antimonos, opposed to solitude; symbol Sb is from Latin stibium [powdered antimony]; some say antimony means, “a metal seldom found alone”; metal)
(Greek: argus, neutral, inactive, idle, inert; gas)
(Latin: arsenicum, yellow; gold, golden; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, astatos, unstable; radioactive nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, baros, heavy; because its compounds are dense; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, beryllus, and Greek, beryllos, gem; metal)
(German: Wismut [wise, “meadow”] plus [mut, “claim to a mine”]; changed to bismat; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Niels Henrik Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist; radioactive metal)
(Arabic: boraq, and Persian, burah [borax]; BORax + carbON; nonmetal)
(Greek: bromos, a stench; because of the odor [stench] from its vapors; liquid nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, cadmia, earthy or earth; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, calx, calcis, lime; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the University of California and named for California and the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal)
(Latin: carbo, coal, charcoal; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for the asteroid Ceres which was discovered in 1803 and named for the Roman goddess Ceres; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, caesius, bluish gray; sky blue; metal)
(Greek: chloros, grass-green; a reference to the color of the gas which tends to be greenish-yellow; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, chroma, color; because many of its compounds are colored; metal)
(German: Kobalt; also Kobolt, a goblin, evil spirit, or malicious sprite; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, cuprum, referring to the island of Cyprus; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Pierre and Marie Curie; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named after the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, Russia; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, dysprositos, hard to get at; difficult to access; hard to obtain; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Albert Einstein; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Ytterby, a village in Sweden; where gadolite was found; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Europe; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American physicist; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, fluere, to flow; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for France; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named after gadolinite, a mineral named for Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), a Finnish chemist and mineralogist; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; Gallia, the Latin name for the area that became France after the fall of the Roman Empire; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Germany; metal)
(Anglo-Saxon: gold, Sanskrit juel, to shine; the symbol is from Latin aurum, shining down; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Hafnia, the Latinized name of Copenhagen; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from a Latin word Hassias meaning “Hess”, the German state of Hessen; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, helios, the sun, first observed in the sun’s atmosphere; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; Holmia, the Latinized form of Stockholm; rare earth)
(Greek: hydor, "water", plus gen, "born", "forming"; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, indicum, indigo [a blue Indian dye]; metal)
(Greek: iodes, "violet"; from the color of its vapor; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, iris, a "rainbow", because of the changing color of its salts; metal)
(Anglo-Saxon: iron, the symbol is from Latin ferrum which also means iron; metal)
(Greek: kryptos, "hidden"; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lanthanein, "hidden", "to be concealed"; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Ernest Lawrence, an American physicist and inventor of the cyclotron; radioactive metal)
(Anglo-Saxon: lead; the symbol is from the Latin plumbum, "lead")
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lithos, "stone, stony"; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Gaulish-Latin, Lutetia, a fortified town of a Gaulish tribe of the Parisii, the ancient name of Paris; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, Magnesia, a district in Asia Minor; metal)
(Latin: magnes, "magnet"; because of confusion with magnetic iron ores; or magnesia nigri, meaning "black magnesia"; metal)
(Latin: named for Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeléyev, a Russian chemist who contributed so much to the development of the periodic table; radioactive metal)
(Latin: named for the Roman god Mercurius; the symbol is from Latin hydrargyrum, "liquid silver"; liquid metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, molybdos, "lead"; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, neo, "new" plus didymon, "twin" [with the element praseodymium]; rare earth)
(Greek: neo, "new" or the "new one"; gas)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Neptune, the first planet beyond Uranus; radioactive metal)
(German: Nickel, name for "Satan"; kupfernickel, meaning "Devil’s copper" or "St Nicholas’s (Old Nick’s) copper"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the goddess, Niobe, daughter of Tantalus. This element is also known as columbium; metal)
(Latin: "forming niter", or “niter producer”; because niter, a mineral properly called potassium nitrate, and contains nitrogen, a compound of nitrogen; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Alfred Nobel; the discovery was made at the Nobel Institute; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, osme, "smell", "malodorousness", "stink"; metal)
(Greek: oxys, "sharp", plus gen, "forming"; from the incorrect belief that oxygen forms acids; gas)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, named in honor of the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered at about the same time; and for Pallas, the Greek goddess of wisdom; metal)
(Greek: phosphoros, "light bringer", "morning star"; glows brightly because of rapid oxidation; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: a diminutive of the Spanish plata, "silver", "platina"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Pluto; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named by Murie Curie for her native Poland; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for potash, a compound of potassium; the symbol is from Latin kalium; from Arabic, gilf, and a reference to the charred ashes of the saltwort; metal)
(Greek: prasios, "green", plus didymos, "twin" [with the element neodymium] because of a green line in its spectrum; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: named for the Greek god Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven [the sun] for mankind; radioactive metal rare earth)
(Modern Latin: some say it comes from Greek proto, "first"; plus actinium, "ray"; so, “first actinium”; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Latin radius, meaning “ray”, because of its intense radioactivity; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from radium and argon, its chemical cousin; radioactive gas)
(Modern Latin: from Latin Rhenus, in honor of the Rhine River in Germany; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, rhodon, "rose"; in reference to the red color of its salts; metal)
(Named for German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen)
(Modern Latin: from Latin rubidus, "red"; from the red lines in its spectrum; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ruthenia [Latin for Russia] in the Urals, where one was first found; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist and chemist; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for a Scandinavian mineral samarskite; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: named for Scandinavia; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999), an American nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, selene, the moon; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: from Latin, silex, silicis, "flint"; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: from Anglo-Saxon, sealfor, siolfur; the symbol is from Latin argentum, "silver"; metal)
(Modern Latin: English, soda, compound of sodium; the symbol comes from Latin natrium; "a salt"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Strontian, "a village in Scotland"; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Sanskrit, solvere; or sulvere; and Latin, sulphur; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: named for the mythical king Tantalus [who in the Greek myths was tortured by being placed in water up to his chin, which he was never able to drink, whence the word “tantalize”]; because of the element’s insolubility or “to illustrate the tantalizing work he had until he succeeded in isolating this element”; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, technetos, "artificial"; the first man-made artificial element; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: tellus, the "earth"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, a village in Sweden; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, thallos, "a young, or green, twig or shoot" [based on the color of its spectrum]; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Thor, the Norse god of thunder; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, Thule, the Greek name for land north of Britain or for Scandinavia; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from Anglo-Saxon, tin; symbol from Latin stannum; meaning “tin”; metal)
(Modern Latin: from the Titans of classical mythology; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Swedish, tung sten, "heavy stone"; the symbol is from German Wolfram;, named for the tungsten mineral wolframite; metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Uranus; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the Scandinavian goddess Vanadis; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, xenon, "stranger"; gas)
(Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, a quarry in Sweden where the first rare earth had been discovered; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, near Vaxholm in Sweden; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from German, zink; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Arabic, zargun, "gold color"; metal)
(History of the Chemical Elements Table)
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(Chemical Elements are Listed with Links to Information about Each Chemical Element)
(Arabic > Greek > Latin: the art of combining base metals [to make gold]; from Greek, chemia, “Egypt”, supposedly where the art of changing metals into gold existed)
(Greek: tunic, covering; a reference to the chemical constituent of crab and lobster shells)
(Greek: daybreak, dawn, red of the dawn sky; primarily used in naming chemical compounds, especially pertaining to red stain or dye)
(Greek: above, over; excessive; more than normal; abnormal excess [in medicine]; abnormally great or powerful sensation [in physical or pathological terms]; highest [in chemical compounds])
(Latin: from -icalis, a suffix that forms adjectives from nouns; of or having to do with; having the nature of; constituting or being; containing or made up of; made by or caused by; like, characteristic of; art or system of thought; chemical terms)
(Greek: a combining form occurring in the names of chemical compounds in which the methyl group is present; alcohol, wine)
(Greek: light, light bringer, shine; morning star; a nonmetallic chemical element that ignites when exposed to air)
(Latin: oak; used to designate any of a variety of chemical substances derived from oak bark or acorns)
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“chemical”
A chemical compound used as an aid to agriculture; agrochemical: Agricultural chemicals include fertilizers, soil conditioners, insecticides, and herbicides.
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agri-, agrio-, ager
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The career branch of engineering that deals with the development and applications of manufacturing processes; such as, refinery processes, which chemically convert raw materials into a variety of products, which is usually concerned with the design and operations of chemical plants and equipment to perform such projects.
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genus, genesis-, -gen, -gene, -genesis, -genetic, -genic, -geny, -genous
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Scientific Fields or Categories of Science Specialties
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chemical gustometry
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gust-, gusti-
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chemical lithosphere
The chemical boundary layer between the surface of the earth and the asthenosphere that contains the material differentiated or extracted from the mantle.
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litho-, lith-, -lith, -lithic, -lite, -liths, -lites
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sphero-, spher-, -sphere-
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chemical sympathectomy, medical sympathectomy
A partial or complete sympathetic nerve or ganglion block, brought about pharmacologically by ganglion-blocking agents.
This may be accomplished in the form of an injection of a local anesthetic into the ganglia concerned for temporary inducement or the injection of alcohol or phenol for permanent inducement.
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-ectomy, -ectome, -ectomize
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medico-, medic-, medi-, med-
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syn-, sy-, sym-, syl-, sys-
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chemistry and chemical elements
A great deal of information about chemistry and chemical elements is available for both chemists and non-chemists.
This resource includes: chemical words and definitions and a great deal of knowledge about chemical elements that are described at this chemical elements list; as well as, a Chemical-Elements Chart History; Part 1 and Part 2, both of which are available here.
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Special Contents of Interest
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mechanico-chemical (adjective)
Concerning or dependent on both mechanics and chemistry: "Mechanico-chemical is applied specifically to the sciences of galvanism, electricity, and magnetism; all of which require the applications of the functions of mechanics and chemistry."
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mechano-, mechan-; mechanico-; machin-
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molybdenum chemical element
Information is located at Chemical Element:
molybdenum.
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“chemical”
Chemical Elements Chart History, Part 1 of 2
History of the Chemical Elements Table unit.
Chemical Elements Chart History, Part 1 of 2
History of the Chemical Elements Table unit.
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Units of Special Compositions, Topics, or Subjects That Provide Special Information
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Chemical Elements List
Chemical Elements are Listed with Links to Information about Each Chemical Element unit.
Chemical Elements List
Chemical Elements are Listed with Links to Information about Each Chemical Element unit.
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Units of Special Compositions, Topics, or Subjects That Provide Special Information
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chemical vapor deposition; CVD
A method of depositing thin semiconductor films used to make certain types of photovoltaic devices.
With this method, a substrate is exposed to one or more vaporized compounds, one or more of which contain desirable constituents.
A chemical reaction is initiated, at or near the substrate surface, to produce the desired material that will condense on the substrate.
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Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms +
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chemical weathering
- Carbonation, the breakdown of calcite by reaction with carbonic acid in rainwater.
- Hydrolysis, a breakdown of feldspar into china clay by reaction with carbonic aid in rainwater.
- Oxidation, the breakdown of iron-rich minerals due to rusting.
- Hydration, an expansion certain minerals due to the uptake of water.
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Meteorology or Weather Terms +
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metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, MOCVD
A process of producing materials for semiconductors, including photovoltaic material, in which a surface layer is produced by the deposition on a substrate of a volatile organo-metallic compound; such as, methyl, which is transported to the surface through the gas phase at elevated temperatures.
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