Chemical Definition

kĕmĭ-kəl
chemicals
adjective
Of or having to do with chemistry.
Webster's New World
Made by or used in chemistry.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the properties or actions of chemicals.
American Heritage
Operated or made by the use of chemicals.
Chemical burns.
Webster's New World
Of or involving the use of a drug, alcoholic liquor, etc.
Chemical dependency.
Webster's New World
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noun
chemicals
Any substance used in or obtained by a chemical process.
Webster's New World
A drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
Webster's New World
(chemistry, sciences) Any specific chemical element or chemical compound.
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Other Word Forms of Chemical

Noun

Singular:
chemical
Plural:
chemicals

Origin of Chemical

  • Obsolete chimical from chimic alchemist from New Latin chimicus from Medieval Latin alchimicus from alchymia alchemy alchemy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • chemic (“alchemy”) +‎ -al (“related to”)

    From Wiktionary

Chemical Sentence Examples

  • The advances were not merely mechanical but chemical as well.

  • The chemical smell suggested they were going in the right direction.

  • In both these doctrines of a priori science Descartes has not been subverted, but, if anything, corroborated by the results of experimental physics; for the so-called atoms of chemical theory already presuppose, from the Cartesian point of view, certain aggregations of the primitive particles of matter.

  • But on account of experimental errors in weighing and measuring, and through loss of material in the transfer of substances from one vessel to another, such analyses are rarely trustworthy to more than one part in about Soo; so that small changes in weight consequent on the chemical change could not with certainty be proved or disproved.

  • Photosynthesis is what converts lightenergy from the sun into chemical energy for plants.

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Words Starting With

CCHCHE

Words Ending With

LALCAL

Unscrambles

chemical

Words Starting With C and Ending With L

Starts With C & Ends With LStarts With CH & Ends With LStarts With C & Ends With AL

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With C8 Letter Words Ending With L