different between bioreactor vs chemic

English

Etymology

bio- +? reactor

Noun

bioreactor (plural bioreactors)

1. (biochemistry) A fermentation vat, containing microorganisms or biochemically active substances, used for waste recycling or for making drugs.
   • 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition (page 189)

     First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.

Derived terms

• photobioreactor

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• chymic [from 16th c.]
• chymick [16th-18th c.]

Etymology

From Late Latin chemicus, chimicus, chymicus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?m?k/

  Rhymes: -?m?k

Adjective

chemic (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.
2. (obsolete) Produced through alchemy; counterfeit.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.217:

     a chymic treasure / Is glittering Youth, which I have spent betimes— / My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

3. (now rare) Chemical.

Noun

chemic (plural chemics)

1. (now rare) A chemist or (earlier) an alchemist.
   • 1633, John Donne, "The Comparison":

     like the Chymicks masculine equall fire, / Which in the Lymbecks warme wombe doth inspire / Into th'earths worthlesse part a soule of gold […]

2. (obsolete) A solution of chloride of lime, used in bleaching.

Verb

chemic (third-person singular simple present chemics, present participle chemicking, simple past and past participle chemicked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To bleach with a solution of chloride of lime.