Word Meanings - ACTINO-CHEMISTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Chemistry in its relations to actinism. Draper.

Related words: (words related to ACTINO-CHEMISTRY)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• DRAPERY
  1. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon. 2. Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general. People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay. 3. A textile fabric used for decorative purposes,
• CHEMISTRY
  1. That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode
• DRAPER
  One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.
• DRAPERIED
  Covered or supplied with drapery. Byron.
• ACTINISM
  The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• MACRO-CHEMISTRY
  The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.
• ZOOCHEMISTRY; ZOOECHEMISTRY
  Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.
• ALCHEMISTRY
  Alchemy.
• PHOTOCHEMISTRY
  The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.
• GEOCHEMISTRY
  The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth. -- Ge`o*chem"ic*al , a. --Ge`o*chem"ist , n.
• PHYTOCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.
• BIOCHEMISTRY
  The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
• THERMOCHEMISTRY
  That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.
• STEREO-CHEMISTRY
  Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.
• ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY
  That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.
• ACTINO-CHEMISTRY
  Chemistry in its relations to actinism. Draper.
• MICRO-CHEMISTRY
  The application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.