chemical
noun
a substance produced by or used in a chemical process.
chemically
-
a word derived from
chemical.
Example Sentences
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Plastics were long thought to be chemically inert, meaning they don’t react easily with other compounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Some take care to use all the items inside, while others clear them out—wary of what could happen, chemically speaking, to an errant lotion left in a bag for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
To accomplish this, they turned to a technique known as chemically induced proximity, which uses chemical connections to bring together molecules that normally interact only rarely, if at all.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
The team tested the importance of the 2′-OH even further by chemically changing it to 2′-Ome, similar to what's found in many natural RNA.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
It is physically, chemically impossible for a person who likes Daughtry to have heard of Oh Wonder.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
