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How to use chemist in a sentence

37 example sentences · noun

Chemist means a person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level. Example: “The physical chemist lased the atoms as they passed between the electrodes to study their motion.”

Examples of chemist by meaning

nounA person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

  • It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 60
  • No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020

More sentences with chemist

  • The physical chemist lased the atoms as they passed between the electrodes to study their motion.From the entry lase
  • He does not have much of a standing as a chemist.From the entry standing
  • Niklaus Gerber was a Swiss dairy chemist and industrialist.From the entry Gerber
  • The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.From the entry fragile
  • You could buy FLs quietly in chemists' shops and often in barber shops.2012, Ian McCall, Going Going Gone, page 94. From the entry fl
  • Its grainy texture offers what food chemists call “mouthfeel” at its best.[2007 February 23, “In praise of … hummus”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2022. From the entry mouthfeel
  • But Tamiflu is available at chemists’ if you can get a private prescription.2005 September 12, Damian Whitworth, “Urban worrier”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2026. From the entry chemist's
  • The specialist makers of prosthetics are part chemist, part artist and part engineer.2003, Penny Delamar, The Complete Make-up Artist. From the entry prosthetic
  • A local chemist remembers: My grandmother made home-made sanitary towels from a type of muslin.1992, Maureen Sutton, We Didn't Know Aught, page 17. From the entry bunny
  • In orthodox chemistry, the chemist is concerned principally with the contents of acts of chemical understanding.1988, William J. Danaher, Insight in chemistry, page 141. From the entry metachemistry
  • Gay chemist (graduate of Kent State) seeks correspondence with professional gays.1983 August 13, R. G. Duty, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 22. From the entry SASE
  • A commission, composed of physiologists, physicists, chemists, persons accustomed to historical criticism, would be named.1927 [1863], The Life of Jesus, translation of Vie de Jésus by Ernest Renan. From the entry thaumaturgus
  • To construct plasmogen itself is a task for the chemists of the distant future.1913, Edwin Ray Lankester, Science from an Easy Chair, page 191. From the entry plasmogen
  • An American chemist has stated the pleiomeric chemicals in onions have the potential to alleviate or prevent sore throat.2012, Yadav Anuj, Singh Sanjay Kumar, Kumar Navneet, “Nutrientional and medicinal value of onion”, in Annals of Horticulture, volume 5…. From the entry pleiomeric
  • It is no longer available with that trade name but glycerine of ichthammol can still be bought in chemists.2010 October 19, John Davies, birminghamhistory.co.uk. From the entry blackjack
  • Chemists have all sorts of fantastic jobs - from mixing up potent potions and cure-all drugs, to finding new elements.2000, Clare Oliver, Mind-boggling Science. From the entry snory
  • Essentially a “robot chemist", the sequenator or sequencer carries out the coupling, wash, cleavage, and extraction steps of the cycle.1994, Roger L. Lundblad, Techniques in Protein Modification, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry sequenator
  • Our physical anthropologists are keeping up with the twiddlesome technology of the physicists and chemists, while sticking to their own lasts.1977, Annual Review of Anthropology, volume 6, page 9. From the entry twiddlesome
  • He also induced the chemist to give evidence against Ayo that he was not buying those drugs for patients.1969, Niyi Oniororo, Persevere Dear Brother, 2nd edition, Ibadan, Nigeria: Printed at Ayo-olu Finery Press, →OCLC, page 39. From the entry watchnight
  • Chemists, you see, are also affected with "alphabetitis."1944, The Rotarian - Vol. 64, No. 1. From the entry alphabetitis
  • And on they went, looking at and occasionally talking to metalwrights, watermen, diggers, jackers, electrickmen, chemists, assayers—an Industrial Revolution’s worth of men, al-Wazir realized.2008, Jay Lake, Escapement, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry metalwright
  • To obtain pure HMF, chemists have had to redissolve it in a solvent that is hard to boil away, making the process costly and inefficient.2006, J. R. Minkel, “Pre-Plastic Fantastic”, in Scientific American, 259(3):36. From the entry HMF
  • Furthermore, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recommended that chemists should stop using imprecise terms such as systematic and trivial.1997 Lynne Bowker, "You say "flatbed colour scanner", I say "colour flatbed scanner": A descriptive study of the influence of…. From the entry acribic
  • A drake belonging to a chemist, having drunk water out of a copper vessel which had contained phosphorous, continued its amorous activities until death.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 202. From the entry drake
  • He had not quite decided whether to be a physicist or a chemist; probably he would have chosen the trans-Uranian borderland between the two.1949, John Gunther, “Foreword”, in Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC; Harper Perennial Modern…. From the entry uranian
  • After examining the contents the chemist replied: "Why, this is iron Pyrites, commonly known as fool's gold." "What is it worth?" asked the seedly individual.1916, Southern pharmaceutical journal. From the entry seedly
  • A team led by chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, has created a yellow powder that might boost this field by absorbing CO₂ much more efficiently.2025, “Advances: Environment. Carbon Scrubber. An exotic powder pulls CO₂ from the air at record speed”, in Scientific American, volume…. From the entry metric ton
  • Park, a forensic chemist for the New Jersey State Police who has since retired, bulgogi was a weeknight workhorse, even without the convenience of pre-sliced meat.2021 July 23, Eric Kim, “Bulgogi, Any Way You Slice It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021…. From the entry weeknight
  • The problem of the mushroom supply was solved straight away when Leary learned from a graduate student named George Litwin that a chemist at the Sandoz Corporation, Dr.2004, Martin Torgoff, “Psychedelic Spring”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon &…. From the entry psilocybin
  • Their methods depend on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a technology widely used by physicists, chemists, and biologists to analyze molecular structures and by doctors for medical diagnosis.2001 August 14, Julian Brown, David Deutsch, Quest for the Quantum Computer, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 252. From the entry n-word
  • They call this solid material tholin (after the Greek word for muddy), but it seems likely that chemists will continue to call this rather familiar material “gunge.”11 January 1979, Dr Bernard Dixon (editor), "Grains between the stars account for spectra", in New Scientist. From the entry gunge
  • When we reached Haymarket I suggested that we should stop at one of the all-night chemists and buy him one of the mixtures known as “soberers.”1923, Herbert Vivian, chapter 8, in Myself Not Least, Being the Personal Reminiscences of X, New York: H. Holt, page 136. From the entry soberer
  • Yet, until the last few decades of the twentieth century, the approach that Levi describes, which chemists like to call ‘shake and bake’, was often the best they could do.2001, Philip Ball, Molecules: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2003, page 24. From the entry shake and bake
  • By the eighteenth century chemists had in great measure emancipated themselves from the mysticism and astrologism of the ancients, and suggestions for symbols of a more specific type were made.1923, Hospital Corps Quarterly, page 53. From the entry astrologism
  • Because of his excellent scholarship and general high standing in the college, the faculty recommended that he be given, post obitum, the degree for which he matriculated, namely, pharmaceutical chemist.1920, American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, page 62. From the entry post obitum

Meaning of chemist

  1. noun A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
  2. noun Synonym of pharmacist.
  3. noun Synonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store.

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Questions about chemist in a sentence

How do you use chemist in a sentence?
Chemist is used as a noun. For example: “The physical chemist lased the atoms as they passed between the electrodes to study their motion.”
What is a short sentence with chemist?
“The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.”
What does chemist mean?
Chemist means a person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

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