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Definition of Chemical phenomenon
1. Noun. Any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules).
Generic synonyms: Natural Phenomenon
Specialized synonyms: Allotropism, Allotropy, Exchange, Crystallisation, Crystallization, Crystallizing, Valency, Pleomorphism, Polymorphism, State, State Of Matter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemical Phenomenon
Literary usage of Chemical phenomenon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"But when we inquire into its nature we find it to be essentially, one might almost
say exclusively, a chemical phenomenon, and a chemical phenomenon cannot ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1902)
"... becomes by legitimate abstraction a phenomenon of motion, of heat, of colour,
or of light, or a chemical phenomenon as our needs require ; but the body ..."
3. First Steps in Scientific Knowledge: Complete in Seven Parts by Paul Bert (1887)
"I hope you have understood and kept in mind what a chemical phenomenon is, as
compared with a physical phenomenon. In physics, one can always recover IN ITS ..."
4. The Physical Chemistry of the Proteins by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1918)
"(ii) The coagulation of proteins by salts is partly a physical and partly a
chemical phenomenon depending upon the formation of various compounds between ..."
5. General Chemistry for Colleges by Alexander Smith (1908)
"The data describing a chemical phenomenon consist in an enumeration of physical
... It is, indeed, an invariable characteristic of every chemical phenomenon ..."
6. Essays in Historical Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1902)
"... may be studied in the same way as any other chemical phenomenon; the conversion
of sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid is a purely chemical phenomenon, ..."
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