English noun: chemical change |
| 1. | chemical change (process) (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved |
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| Synonyms | chemical action, chemical process |
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| Broader (hypernym) | action, activity, natural action, natural process |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acylation, agglutinating activity, agglutination, amylolysis, association, blueing, bluing, calcification, catalysis, chelation, chemical mechanism, chemical reaction, chlorination, cleavage, contact action, corroding, corrosion, cracking, de-iodination, deamination, deaminization, decalcification, decarboxylation, demineralisation, demineralization, desalination, desalinisation, desalinization, digestion, dissociation, erosion, ferment, fermentation, fermenting, gasification, gassing, hydrogenation, intumescence, intumescency, inversion, iodination, mechanism, nitrification, peptisation, peptization, photosynthesis, polymerisation, polymerization, precipitation, proteolysis, pyrochemical process, pyrochemistry, reaction, sequestration, swelling, synaeresis, syneresis, synthesis, transamination, transamination, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| Domain category | chemical science, chemistry |
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