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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

化学

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Huàxué

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Chemistry/ˈkɛm.ɪ.stri/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"在化学课上,我们学习了化学反应。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The branch of science that studies the composition, structure, properties, and change of matter.

    "In chemistry class, we learned about the periodic table and chemical reactions."
  2. 2

    A particular method or technique used in the study of substances and their interactions.

    "The chemistry of cooking involves understanding how ingredients react with each other."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the earlier English word 'alchemy' (ultimately from Arabic 'al-kīmiyā', from Greek 'khēmeia'), with the Arabic definite article 'al-' dropped. Over the 16th and 17th centuries, the term shifted from denoting the esoteric practice of transmutation to the modern empirical science of the composition and properties of substances.

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