chemism
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chemism
1850–55; chem- + -ism, modeled on French chimisme, equivalent to chim ( ie ) chemistry + -isme -ism
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If his chemism could only give him the mother-principle also!
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective ~ or attraction.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Reproduction, variation, and heredity are the properties of all living matter; but they are not, like gravity and chemism, universal forces of nature.
From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn
It is true that we do not understand the underlying forces of chemism, etc., but these forces certainly exist and are the foundation of science.
From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn
An explanation of life phenomena that savors of the laboratory and chemism repels me, and an explanation that savors of the theological point of view is equally distasteful to me.
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
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