SURFACE CHEMISTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surface chemistry mean? 

• SURFACE CHEMISTRY (noun)
  The noun SURFACE CHEMISTRY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of chemistry that studies processes occurring at interfaces between phases (especially those between liquid and gas)

  Familiarity information: SURFACE CHEMISTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURFACE CHEMISTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of chemistry that studies processes occurring at interfaces between phases (especially those between liquid and gas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("surface chemistry" is a kind of...):

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

 Context examples 

Scientists attacked this problem by studying the surface chemistry of silicon nanocrystals.

(Making higher energy light to fight cancer, National Science Foundation)