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chemical fingerprint
noun
- a distinctive characteristic or pattern indicating the presence of a certain molecule, used to identify a chemical.
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They were looking for a possible chemical fingerprint of space travel.
Observatories have previously detected hydrogen’s chemical fingerprint in the lunar “regolith,” or soil.
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The researchers compared the chemical fingerprints of these fossilized eggs with those of eggs from hard-shelled dinosaur.
This technique offers what is basically a chemical fingerprint of a material.
They matched the beached blocks to those in the collections using those chemical fingerprints.
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