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English
Etymology
chemic (“alchemy”) + -al (“related to”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
chemical (not comparable)
- Of or relating to chemistry.
chemical experiments
the chemical properties of iron
Pentalene has chemical formula C8H6
- Of or relating to a material or processes not commonly found in nature or in a particular product.
- (obsolete) Of or relating to alchemy.
Translations
relating to chemistry
- Afrikaans: chemiese (af)
- Arabic: كِيمَاوِيّ m (kīmāwiyy), كِيمِيَائِيّ (kīmiyāʔiyy)
- Armenian: քիմիական (hy) (kʻimiakan)
- Asturian: químicu
- Azerbaijani: kimyəvi (az)
- Belarusian: хімі́чны (ximíčny)
- Bulgarian: хими́чески (himíčeski), хими́чен (himíčen)
- Catalan: químic (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 化學的/化学的 (zh) (huàxué de)
- Czech: chemický (cs)
- Danish: kemisk (da)
- Dutch: chemisch (nl), scheikundig (nl)
- Esperanto: ĥemia, kemia
- Estonian: keemiline
- Finnish: kemiallinen (fi)
- French: chimique (fr)
- Galician: químico (gl)
- Georgian: ქიმიური (kimiuri)
- German: chemisch (de)
- Greek: χημικός (el) (chimikós)
- Haitian Creole: chimik
- Hebrew: כִימִי (he) m (chími)
- Hindi: रासायनिक (hi) (rāsāynik)
- Hungarian: vegyi (hu), kémiai (hu)
- Indonesian: kimia (id), kimiawi (id)
- Italian: chimico (it)
- Japanese: 化学~ (ja) (かがく~, kagaku-), 化学的 (ja) (かがくてき, kagaku-teki)
- Korean: 화학의 (ko) (hwahagui), 화학적(化學的) (hwahakjeok)
- Latvian: ķīmisks
- Ligurian: chimico
- Lithuanian: cheminis (lt)
- Macedonian: хемиски (hemiski)
- Malay: kimiawi, kimia (ms)
- Malayalam: രാസ (ml) (rāsa)
- Marathi: रासायनिक (mr) (rāsāynik)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kjemisk (no)
- Nynorsk: kjemisk (no)
- Occitan: quimic (oc)
- Persian: شیمیایی (fa) (šimiyâyi)
- Polish: chemiczny (pl)
- Portuguese: químico (pt)
- Romanian: chimic (ro)
- Russian: хими́ческий (ru) (ximíčeskij)
- Serbo-Croatian: hemijski, kemijski (sh)
- Slovak: chemický (sk)
- Slovene: kemičen, kemijski
- Spanish: químico (es)
- Swedish: kemisk (sv)
- Tagalog: sangkapin
- Telugu: రసాయన (te) (rasāyana)
- Turkish: kimyasal (tr), kimyevî (tr)
- Turkmen: himiki
- Ukrainian: хімі́чний (uk) (ximíčnyj)
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Further reading
Noun
chemical (plural chemicals)
- (chemistry, sciences) Any specific chemical element or chemical compound or alloy.
Hydrogen and sulphur are both chemicals.
- (colloquial) An artificial chemical compound.
I color my hair with henna, not chemicals.
- (slang) An addictive drug.
Usage notes
- The noun is frequently used in a slang and more specific non-technical way (2nd and 3rd definition) by the general public. Chemists and those who understand chemistry may gravitate toward the first, but the term "substance" is preferred usage.
Translations
any specific element or chemical compound
an artificial chemical compound
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