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Definition of Chemism
1. n. The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.
Definition of Chemism
1. Noun. (obsolete chemistry) chemical attraction ¹
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Definition of Chemism
1. chemical attraction [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemism
Literary usage of Chemism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken (1847)
"All chemism takes place only in water; not only because the particles can move
therein, but because chemism is a process of combustion of the elements ..."
2. The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, William Wallace (1874)
"chemism is a category of objectivity which, as a rule, ... There is a reason for
this in the common feature which belongs to mechanism and chemism. ..."
3. The Interpretation of Life: In which is Shown the Relation of Modern Culture by Gerhardt Cornell Mars (1908)
"It is this natural affinity among atoms that constitutes chemism. ... In the
presence of this striking fact of chemism, it does not escape his ..."
4. Matter, Ether, and Motion: The Factors and Relations of Physical Science by Amos Emerson Dolbear (1894)
"... CHAPTER IX chemism THE atomic theory of matter was held in some form by ancient
philosophers, but the reasons they assigned for their opinion were not ..."
5. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"chemism of Respiration. — Infants nourished upon the breast excrete less C(>2
than adults (Rubner, Heubner, Bendix). Thus, a baby weighing 5 kilos (11 ..."
6. A New Basis for Chemistry: A Chemical Philosophy by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"The activities of the crystal are purely dynamic, and its crystalline individuality
must be destroyed before it can be the subject of chemism, while the ..."
7. The Philosophy of Change by Daniel Pomeroy Rhodes (1909)
"... like the ether waves of our experimental knowledge, to the various phenomena
known as heat, light, chemism. That another class of modifying waves must ..."
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