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Physical chemistry
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The science that uses theories and techniques from physics to study chemical systems. uncountable
- 2 the branch of chemistry dealing with the physical properties of chemical substances wordnet
Etymology
Calque of Russian физи́ческая хи́мия (fizíčeskaja xímija). Coined by polymath Mikhail Lomonosov in 1752.
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