English Explanatory Dictionary

metachemistry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An extension of the ideas or methods of chemistry into other areas of inquiry.
  2. The study of substances that can release large amounts of energy relative to their mass, such as molecules in metastable excited states.

Word forms

metachemistry

Etymology

From meta- + chemistry.

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