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variant of chemo-, especially before elements of Latin origin: chemisorption.
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How to use chemi- in a sentence
Asked by his interviewer, Chemi Shalev, about anti-Muslim discimination, Foxman sought to rationalize it.
The lantern of the firefly is an organ of chemi-photic change; the eye is an organ of photo-chemical change.
The Nature of Animal Light|E. Newton Harvey
Medical definitions for chemi-
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Variant ofchemo-
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