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Definition of Chemical chain
1. Noun. (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule).
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Specialized synonyms: Closed Chain, Ring, Long Chain, Long-chain Molecule, Open Chain
Generic synonyms: Building Block, Unit
Group relationships: Molecule
Derivative terms: Catenate, Catenulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemical Chain
Literary usage of Chemical chain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1815)
"These oxides then are placed near the middle of the electro-chemical chain, and
their affinities diminish in proportion as they approach the point of ..."
2. Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association by National Fire Protection Association (1896)
"Dry chemical is believed to extinguish primarily by means of chemical chain-reaction
interruption.6 Cooling or dilution of re- actants important in all ..."
3. The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer (1886)
"... metaphysical substratum of the irritability of the muscle: thus it plays here
precisely the same part which in a physical or chemical chain of causes is ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"In describing a simple reflex action, for instance, the physico-chemical chain
of events may appear to be so completely known that the corresponding mental ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1879)
"... or to the chemical chain in which oxygen and carbon, torn asunder by light
within vegetables, slowly recompose carbonic acid within animals, ..."
6. The Philosophy of Life and Philosophy of Language: In a Course of Lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel (1848)
"... the decomposition of light, and the chemical chain of the galvanic pile, in
which the inner life of the terrestrial force, and of the eternally-moving ..."
7. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"He suggests that in the initiation of development by employment of the egg-secretion,
essentially the same chemical chain is involved as in normal ..."
8. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1815)
"... chemical chain, and their affinities diminish in proportion as they approach
the point of indifference of that chain. The only ternary oxide which ..."
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