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Definition of Chemical action
1. Noun. (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved.
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Specialized synonyms: Acylation, Agglutinating Activity, Agglutination, Amylolysis, Association, Blueing, Bluing, Calcification, Catalysis, Contact Action, Chelation, Chemical Reaction, Reaction, Chlorination, Cleavage, Corroding, Corrosion, Erosion, Cracking, Deamination, Deaminization, Decalcification, Decarboxylation, De-iodination, Demineralisation, Demineralization, Desalination, Desalinisation, Desalinization, Digestion, Dissociation, Gasification, Gassing, Hydrogenation, Intumescence, Intumescency, Swelling, Inversion, Iodination, Chemical Mechanism, Mechanism, Nitrification, Peptisation, Peptization, Photosynthesis, Polymerisation, Polymerization, Precipitation, Proteolysis, Pyrochemical Process, Pyrochemistry, Sequestration, Synaeresis, Syneresis, Synthesis, Transamination, Transamination, Ferment, Fermentation, Fermenting, Zymolysis, Zymosis
Generic synonyms: Action, Activity, Natural Action, Natural Process
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemical Action
Literary usage of Chemical action
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... that when the Products of the Intensity of the Light acting and of the Time
of Exposure are Equal, Equal Amounts of chemical action will be produced. ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1877)
"Contact of dissimilar substances, it is true, is necessary to the voltaic action ;
because without contact there can be no chemical action. ..."
3. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1881)
"The energy of this current is supplied by the chemical action which takes ...
The electric effect may, however, be produced without chemical action if by ..."
4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"(8) The Effect of Surface Tension on chemical action. By JJ THOMSON, MA, FRS,
Cavendish Professor, and J. MONCK- MAN (D.Sc. Lond.), Downing College. ..."
5. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1875)
"In the most chemical action, which at first passed unnoticed, is now recognized,
powerful electrical apparatus, and especially in the Voltaic pile, ..."
6. Lessons in Chemical Philosophy: An Introductory Study for Use in Colleges by John Howard Appleton, Herbert William Conn (1890)
"MODES OF chemical action. As a result of the operation of chemical affinity,
molecules are changed in a variety of ways. The following are some of the ..."
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