NOUN | phenomenon | chemical phenomenon | any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules) |
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Meaning | Any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules). | |
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Category | chemistry, chemical science | The science of matter |
Narrower | allotropy, allotropism | The phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms |
crystallization, crystallisation, crystallizing | The formation of crystals | |
exchange | chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another | |
polymorphism, pleomorphism | (chemistry) the existence of different kinds of crystal of the same chemical compound | |
state of matter, state | (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids / liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) | |
valency | The phenomenon of forming chemical bonds | |
Broader | natural phenomenon | All phenomena that are not artificial |
Spanish | fenómeno químico | |
Catalan | fenomen químic |
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