chemical

English

Etymology

From chemic (“alchemy”) +‎ -al (“related to”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĕm'ĭk-əl, IPA^(key): /ˈkɛmɪkəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmɪkəl

Adjective

chemical (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to chemistry.

   chemical experiments

   the chemical properties of iron

   Pentalene has chemical formula C₈H₆

2. Of or relating to a material or processes not commonly found in nature or in a particular product.
3. (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)
• Welsh: cemegol (cy)

Further reading

• Chemistry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

chemical (plural chemicals)

1. (chemistry, sciences) Any specific chemical element or chemical compound or alloy.

   Hydrogen and sulphur are both chemicals.

2. (colloquial) An artificial chemical compound.

   I color my hair with henna, not chemicals.

3. (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

• Afrikaans: chemikalie
• Azerbaijani: kimyəvi preparat, kimyəvi birləşmə, ximikat
• Bulgarian: химика́л (bg) m (himikál)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化學物質／化学物质 (zh) (huàxué wùzhí)

• Czech: chemikálie (cs)
• Danish: kemikalie n
• Dutch: chemicalie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ĥemiaĵo, kemiaĵo
• Estonian: kemikaal
• Finnish: kemikaali (fi), kemiallinen aine
• French: produit chimique (fr) m
• Galician: produto químico m
• Georgian: ქიმიკატი (kimiḳaṭi)
• German: Chemikalie (de) f
• Hebrew: כִימִיקָל (he) m (chimiqál)
• Hindi: रसायन (hi) m (rasāyan)
• Hungarian: vegyszer (hu), vegyi anyag, kemikália (hu)
• Italian: composto chimico (it) m
• Japanese: 化学物質 (ja) (かがくぶっしつ, kagaku busshitsu)
• Maori: pūmatū
• Marathi: रसायन (mr) n (rasāyan)
• Portuguese: substância química f
• Russian: химика́т (ru) m (ximikát), хими́ческое соедине́ние (ru) n (ximíčeskoje sojedinénije)
• Slovene: kemikalija f
• Swahili: kemikali (sw)
• Swedish: kemikalie (sv) c
• Tagalog: sangkap
• Tibetan: རྫས་འགྱུར (rdzas 'gyur)

an artificial chemical compound

• Afrikaans: chemikalie
• Azerbaijani: kimyəvi birləşmə
• Danish: kemikalie n
• Finnish: kemikaali (fi), keinotekoinen kemikaali
• French: produit chimique (fr) m
• Galician: produto químico m
• Georgian: ქიმიური ნაერთი (kimiuri naerti)
• German: Chemikalie (de) f
• Gujarati: રસાયણ (rasāyaṇ)
• Malay: bahan kimia (ms)
• Portuguese: produto químico m, química (pt) f
• Russian: хими́ческое соедине́ние (ru) n (ximíčeskoje sojedinénije)
• Slovene: kemikalija f
• Spanish: producto químico m
• Swahili: kemikali (sw)
• Swedish: kemikalie (sv) c
• Turkish: kimyasal (tr)

an addictive drug

• Afrikaans: dwelm
• Dutch: verslavend middel n
• Finnish: kova huume
• German: Chemikalie (de) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} kjemikal n, ^{(please verify)} kjemikalie (no) m, ^{(please verify)} kjemikalium n
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} రసాయనము (te) (rasāyanamu)

Derived terms

terms derived from chemical (adjective and noun)

• actinochemical
• aerochemical
• agrochemical
• allelochemical
• allochemical
• antichemical
• astrochemical
• baryochemical
• biochemical
• biophysicochemical
• bio-physico-chemical
• carbochemical
• chemical abortion
• chemical affinity
• chemical agent
• chemical beam epitaxy
• chemical biology
• chemical bomb
• chemical bond
• chemical car
• chemical castration
• chemical cell
• chemical change
• chemical clock
• chemical composition
• chemical cosh
• chemical database
• chemical decomposition
• chemical defense
• chemical dependency
• chemical depilatory
• chemical dermatitis
• chemical ecology
• chemical element
• chemical energy
• chemical engine
• chemical engineer
• chemical engineering
• chemical equation
• chemical equilibrium
• chemicalese
• chemical fingerprint
• chemical flux
• chemical formula
• chemical-free
• chemical genomics
• chemical hazard
• chemical hood
• chemical horn
• chemical imbalance
• chemical indicator
• chemical industry
• chemicalization
• chemicalize
• chemical kinetics
• chemical laser
• chemical law
• chemical lithosphere
• chemically
• chemical messenger
• chemical nomenclature
• chemical oceanography
• chemical oxygen generator
• chemical pathology
• chemical peel
• chemical peritonitis
• chemical physics
• chemical plant
• chemical pregnancy
• chemical property
• chemical proteomics
• chemical reaction
• chemical reactor
• chemical restraint
• chemical rocket
• chemical sensitivity
• chemical series
• chemical shift
• chemical space
• chemical species
• chemical structure
• chemical substance
• chemical suit
• chemical symbol
• chemical toilet
• chemical warfare
• chemical weapon
• chemigation
• chemmie
• chemtrail
• chemzyme
• clinicochemical
• colloidochemical
• cosmochemical
• crystallochemical
• cytochemical
• electrochemical
• femtochemical
• fine chemical
• fluorochemical
• forever chemical
• geochemical
• glaciochemical
• hadrochemical
• haematochemical
• hematochemical
• histochemical
• hydrochemical
• iatrochemical
• immunochemical
• infochemical
• isochemical
• lithochemical
• macrochemical
• magnetochemical
• mechanicochemical
• mechanochemical
• metachemical
• metallochemical
• microchemical
• morphochemical
• multichemical
• multiple chemical sensitivity
• mycochemical
• nanochemical
• necrochemical
• neurochemical
• nonchemical
• oenochemical
• oleochemical
• optochemical
• organochemical
• perfluorochemical
• petrochemical
• pharmacochemical
• photochemical
• physicochemical
• physiochemical
• phytochemical
• piezochemical
• prechemical
• protochemical
• pseudochemical
• psychochemical
• pyrochemical
• quasichemical
• radiochemical
• regiochemical
• research chemical
• rotochemical
• semichemical
• semiochemical
• sociochemical
• sonochemical
• spectrochemical
• stereochemical
• stoichiochemical
• superchemical
• technochemical
• thanatochemical
• thermochemical
• topochemical
• tribochemical
• ultramicrochemical
• unchemical
• wet chemical
• xenochemical
• zoochemical

 

Related terms

• alchemical
• chemist
• chemistry

See also

• molecule
• reagent

Anagrams

• Michalec, alchemic