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stance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter. Butter and eggs (Bot…

Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical comnbinations. Chemical attraction or affinity. See under Attraction.

A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

See Chemic, Chemist, Chemistry.

acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

A cunette. 3. (Spectrometry) (Analytical chemistry)

Of or pertaining to electro-chemistry. Ure.

ing c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 153, 179, 181-3, 237-8.

olygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale.

Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.

sician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.

s, those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc.

rcha.C5H8 -- unsaturated, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons

ogy belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.

of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.

A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth. Ure.

Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.

Of or pertaining to micro-chemistry; as, a micro-chemical test.

as a whole, incuding the sciences of botany, zoölogy, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, chemistry, and physics. In recent usage the term is often restricted to the sciences of botany and zoölogy collectively, and sometimes to the science of zoology alone. -- Natural law, that instinctive sense of justice and of righ…

A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentan…