Physical chemistry

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The science that uses theories and techniques from physics to study chemical systems. uncountable
  2. 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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