chemism
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chemism
1850–55; chem- + -ism, modeled on French chimisme, equivalent to chim ( ie ) chemistry + -isme -ism
Example Sentences
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Well, one of the equivalents, transformed by some unknown chemism within us, is our psychic force, or states of consciousness.
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
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
A compound is a substance which is made up of elements united in exact proportions by a force called chemism, or chemical affinity.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams
Without this, chemism and mechanism would work together to quite other ends.
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
Energy is stored by chemical means by causing it to do work in opposition to the force of chemism, or chemical affinity.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
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