Metachemistry
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An extension of the ideas or methods of chemistry into other areas of inquiry. uncountable
"It is none the less true that a metachemistry came into being with the Mendeleeff table and that the ordering and rationalizing tendency led to ever more numerous, ever more profound successes."
- 2 The study of substances that can release large amounts of energy relative to their mass, such as molecules in metastable excited states. uncountable
"Metachemistry would concern itself with the release of energy of the sun's radiation which impinges on the highest strata of the atmosphere and is stored in the atoms and molecules which it excites and ionizes."
Example
More examples"It is none the less true that a metachemistry came into being with the Mendeleeff table and that the ordering and rationalizing tendency led to ever more numerous, ever more profound successes."
Etymology
From meta- + chemistry.
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