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/kɛm/ · noun
(uncountable, university slang, often capitalized) Clipping of chemistry (“branch of natural science”), usually referring to the subject or the department..
It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us.
The seas, morosely fished by Ethan and the others, are heavily polluted, with Ethan informing Timothy, who risked a freezing dip: “If the tide doesn’t get you, the chems will. You want to stay healthy past forty, alive past fifty, you’ll remember to stay well out of the water.”
The baby's parents tell of how they wash him with "fresh fluoride chlorine chemical-free water from the sky" and how those with him now are most likely "using artificial perfume and bathing him in chems".
chem plant; chem weapons
[“]Use of chem weapons is horrific,” tweeted ACLU national security lawyer Hina Shamsi, “but Trump’s military action violates Constitution & U.N. charter. No legit domestic or international law basis.”
Use chem when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chem means (uncountable, university slang, often capitalized) Clipping of chemistry (“branch of natural science”), usually referring to the subject or the department..
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It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us.
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