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metachemical

metachemical adjective: pertaining to metachemistry.

Adjective

metachemical (comparative more metachemical, superlative most metachemical)

  1. Pertaining to metachemistry.
    • The greater part of this is in comparative thermal equilibrium, and so we should not expect metachemical change to occur.1910, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News - Volume 33, page xxii
    • Alfred Nordmann, in Chapter 19, draws on the work of Emile Meyerson and Gaston Bachelard — two philosophers with some genuine chemical knowledge — to articulate a more general, a richer, and a metachemical notion of substance.2011, Davis Baird, Eric Scerri, Lee McIntyre, Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline, →ISBN, page 15

Forms of metachemical

comparativemore metachemical
superlativemost metachemical

Origin of metachemical

From meta- + chemical.

Questions about metachemical

What does metachemical mean?
Metachemical means pertaining to metachemistry.
What part of speech is metachemical?
Metachemical is an adjective.

Words near metachemical in the dictionary

  1. metacharacter
  2. metacharacters
  3. metacharities
  4. metacharity
  5. metachemic
  6. metachemical
  7. metachemistry
  8. metachert
  9. metacherts
  10. metachlamydeous
  11. metachloral

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