chemical engineering
noun
the science or profession of applying chemistry to industrial processes.
chemical engineer
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a word derived from
chemical engineering.
Example Sentences
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Alex Grant, a chemical engineer from Toronto, started a magnesium-smelting company in 2022 and named it Magrathea after a planet in Douglas Adams’s “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” whose inhabitants build other planets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
I was complaining a little too much and suddenly she just said, “Why don’t you make your own? You’re a chemical engineer, you’ve played a Russian a couple of times.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2025
Darren Lipomi, the chemical engineer, drew a parallel between the committee report and U.S.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025
Neltner, a chemical engineer and attorney, and Maffini, a biochemist and consultant, dug into the FDA’s files on PharmaGABA to see why regulators were concerned about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
Or, rather, he had asked his young assistant, Dan Gertner, a chemical engineer with an MBA, to see if he could understand them.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
