chemical
/ˈkɛm.ɪ.kəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.57 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to a material or processes not commonly found in nature or in a particular product.
noun
Any specific chemical element or chemical compound or alloy.
Example Sentences
- "chemical experiments"
- "the chemical properties of iron"
- "Pentalene has chemical formula C₈H₆"
- "The physiology of matter in the abstract is dynamical, that of mineral species is both dynamical and chemical, while that of organized forms is at once dynamical, chemical, and biotical."
- "We pinpoint all essential ingredients of intelligence found in spatio-temporal dynamics of nonlinear chemical systems, and show outlines of future designs and protypes of chemical intelligent "gooware"."
- "Hydrogen and sulphur are both chemicals."
Etymology
From New Latin chēmicus + -al.