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CHEMICAL PHENOMENON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("chemical phenomenon" is a kind of...):
natural phenomenon (all phenomena that are not artificial)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chemical phenomenon"):
allotropism; allotropy (the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms)
exchange (chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another)
crystallisation; crystallization; crystallizing (the formation of crystals)
valency (the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds)
pleomorphism; polymorphism ((chemistry) the existence of different kinds of crystal of the same chemical compound)
state; state of matter ((chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container))
