Definition of Chemical mechanism

1. Noun. The atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction. "He determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions"

Exact synonyms: Mechanism
Specialized synonyms: Biochemical Mechanism
Generic synonyms: Chemical Action, Chemical Change, Chemical Process

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemical Mechanism

chemical formula
chemical group
chemical hazard
chemical hood
chemical horn
chemical imbalance
chemical imbalances
chemical indicator
chemical industry
chemical irritant
chemical kinetics
chemical knife
chemical laser
chemical law
chemical lithosphere
chemical mechanism (current term)
chemical messenger
chemical nomenclature
chemical notation
chemical oceanography
chemical operations
chemical oxygen demand
chemical pathology
chemical peel
chemical peeling
chemical peels
chemical peritonitis
chemical phenomenon
chemical physics
chemical plant

Literary usage of Chemical mechanism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Man-- an adaptive mechanism by George Washington Crile (1916)
"... transformation of energy by which men and animals are enabled to adapt themselves to their environment effected through an electro-chemical mechanism? ..."

2. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"This fact suggested that some chemical mechanism was at work, ... it was the belief that they were cut that led to the search for a chemical mechanism. ..."

3. Elements of Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses by Percy Millard Dawson (1917)
"chemical mechanism. — Besides this psychic secretion there is a secretion due to certain chemical constituents of the food. Some foods do not contain these ..."

4. The Internal Secretory Organs: Their Physiology and Pathology by Artur Biedl (1913)
"EDKINS, ES The chemical mechanism of gastric secretion. J. o. P., tabletten in einem Fallc von Morbus ..."

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