CHEMICAL PHENOMENON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemical phenomenon mean? 

• CHEMICAL PHENOMENON (noun)
  The noun CHEMICAL PHENOMENON has 1 sense:

1. any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules)

  Familiarity information: CHEMICAL PHENOMENON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMICAL PHENOMENON (noun)

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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))