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chemistry
English
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Etymology
First coined 1605, from chemist +? -ry. From chemist, chymist, from Latin alchimista, from Arabic ?????????????? (al-k?miy??), from article ???? (al-) + Ancient Greek ?????? (khumeía, “art of alloying metals”), from ???? (khúma, “fluid”), from ????? (khumós, “juice”), from ??? (khé?, “I pour”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?m'?str?, IPA(key): /?k?m.?.st?i/
Noun
chemistry (countable and uncountable, plural chemistries)
- (uncountable) The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations in the constitution of their molecules.
- (countable) An application of chemical theory and method to a particular substance.
- 1984, North American Lake Management Society, Lake and Reservoir Management: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference (page 250)
- The aquatic chemistries of iron and manganese are similar; this “is reflected geologically in their common association in rocks of all kinds” (Bortleson and Lee, 1974).
- 1984, North American Lake Management Society, Lake and Reservoir Management: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference (page 250)
- (informal) The mutual attraction between two people; rapport.
Usage notes
- Historical note: This word and its derivatives were formerly spelled chy- or sometimes chi- (i.e., chymistry, chymist, chymical, etc., or chimistry, chimist, chimical, etc.) with pronunciation depending on the spelling.
Meronyms
- See also Thesaurus:chemistry
Derived terms
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Derived terms
- biochemistry
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kilocalorie
English
Etymology
kilo- +? calorie
Noun
kilocalorie (plural kilocalories)
- a non-SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 calories, used (now rare) in chemistry or physics; equal to 1 calorie or Calorie as used in nutrition. Symbol kcal.
Usage notes
This prefix kilo- is generally applied to the small calorie, and not to the large calorie used in nutrition, to avoid confusion because 1,000 food calories would be 1,000,000 small calories.
Translations
Italian
Noun
kilocalorie f
- plural of kilocaloria
Romanian
Etymology
From French kilocalorie
Noun
kilocalorie f (plural kilocalorii)
- kilocalorie
Declension
kilocalorie From the web:
- = 4184 joules
- what kilocalories means
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