synthetic chemical
51chemical intermediate — ▪ chemistry any chemical substance produced during the conversion of some reactant to a product. Most synthetic processes involve transformation of some readily available and often inexpensive substance to some desired product through a… …
52Chemical chirality in popular fiction — Although little was known about chemical chirality in the time of Lewis Carroll, his work Through the Looking glass contains a prescient reference to the differing biological activities of enantiomeric drugs: Perhaps Looking glass milk isn t good …
53synthetic intermediate — Intermediate In ter*me di*ate, n. 1. A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator. [PJC] 2. Something that is intermediate. [PJC] 3. Specifically: (Chem.) A compound which is produced in the… …
54synthetic — adj. Synthetic is used with these nouns: ↑chemical, ↑compound, ↑diamond, ↑dye, ↑fabric, ↑fertilizer, ↑fibre, ↑fur, ↑ingredient, ↑leather, ↑material, ↑ …
55chemical — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. See inorganic matter. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. analytic, synthetic, synthesized, petrochemical, biochemical, psychochemical, actinic, artificial, made in the laboratory, ersatz, alchemical. n. Syn …
56synthetic — [sɪn θɛtɪk] adjective 1》 made by chemical synthesis, especially to imitate a natural product. ↘not genuine; unnatural. 2》 Logic having truth or falsity determinable by recourse to experience. Compare with analytic. 3》 Linguistics (of a… …
57synthetic rubber — [1] A man made elastomer. The raw materials are generally derived from oil by products. Produced by the polymerization or copolymerization of petroleum derived olefins or other unsaturated compounds. Also see natural rubber. [2] Any rubber which… …
58synthetic fibre — man made textile fibre produced entirely from chemical substances, unlike those man made fibres derived from such natural substances as cellulose or protein. See Man Made Fibres (fibre, man made). * * * …
59synthetic air — noun A form of purified air made from purified liquid air, which is used in some chemical analyses …
60synthetic chemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the building up of chemical compounds from simpler substances or from the elements …
