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Definition of Chemical mechanism
1. Noun. The atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction. "He determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions"
Specialized synonyms: Biochemical Mechanism
Generic synonyms: Chemical Action, Chemical Change, Chemical Process
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemical Mechanism
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 ..."