Metachemistry

Quick meaning: Metachemistry is a noun meaning An extension of the ideas or methods of chemistry into other areas of inquiry.

Meaning

An extension of the ideas or methods of chemistry into other areas of inquiry.

More Meanings

1. The study of substances that can release large amounts of energy relative to their mass, such as molecules in metastable excited states.

Example Sentences

By contrast, 'metachemistry' pays attention to the variety of states of matter, to the plurality of materials.

It is none the less true that a metachemistry came into being with the Mendeleeff table and that the ordering and rationalizing tendency led to ever more numerous, ever more profound successes.

Metachemistry would concern itself with the release of energy of the sun's radiation which impinges on the highest strata of the atmosphere and is stored in the atoms and molecules which it excites and ionizes.

In addition to the importance of metachemistry for propulsion, there exist intimate relations between metachemistry and the problem of directly exploiting the radiation from the sun as well as the problem of storing energy for varying periods.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include macrochemistry, chemistry, chymistry, chemometrics, chemurgist, spectrochemistry.

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