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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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
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
There is no life without chemism, but there is chemism without life.
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
If his chemism could only give him the mother-principle also!
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
The various forces which we recognize in nature—heat, light, electricity, chemism, etc.—are simply forms of motion, and thus forms of this energy.
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
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