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

assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.

Chemistry in its relations to actinism. Draper.

One who practices alchemy. You are alchemist; make gold. Shak.

Relating to or practicing alchemy. Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators. Burke.

Alchemy. [Obs.]

The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.

The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth. -- Ge`o*chem"ic*al (#), a. --Ge`o*chem"ist (#), n.

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

Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by che…

properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.

r portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.

The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.

A schemer. [R.] Waterland.

Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.

That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.

Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.

The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham (Chemistry).