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Not necessarily. Think of someone discussing the animal brain in comparison to a computer. They might well refer to the brain's memory as a 'chemical database' (actual SOP usage). Of course, a computer's memory is made up of chemicals as well. Moglex16:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)Reply
Ah, the classic and timeless moron argument. Funny we wouldn't think of computer memory being made up of chemicals. Must be a different sense, one that we seem to be missing. DAVilla17:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)Reply
Point of order: Since the use of this term is not being questioned -- and since providing 3 valid cites would not resolve the issue -- this should really be listed on WT:RFD instead. -- Visviva14:19, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply
Wikipedia's definition is more persuasively non-compositional than ours: "a database specifically designed to store chemical information." So it seems that if I exported Wiktionary's entries for chemical names to a database, this would be a database of chemicals but not a chemical database sensu stricto. I'm not entirely convinced, though. -- Visviva14:19, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply
