Word Meanings - LABORANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chemist. Boyle.

Related words: (words related to LABORANT)

• CHEMIST
  A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.
• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• CHEMISTRY
  1. That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• MACRO-CHEMISTRY
  The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.
• SCHEMIST
  A schemer. Waterland.
• ALCHEMIST
  One who practices alchemy. You are alchemist; make gold. Shak.
• ZOOCHEMISTRY; ZOOECHEMISTRY
  Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.
• ALCHEMISTRY
  Alchemy.
• GEOCHEMISTRY
  The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth. -- Ge`o*chem"ic*al , a. --Ge`o*chem"ist , n.
• PHOTOCHEMISTRY
  The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.
• PHYTOCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.
• BIOCHEMISTRY
  The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
• THERMOCHEMISTRY
  That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.
• ALCHEMISTIC; ALCHEMISTICAL
  Relating to or practicing alchemy. Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators. Burke.
• IATROCHEMIST
  A physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.
• STEREO-CHEMISTRY
  Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.
• ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY
  That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.
• ACTINO-CHEMISTRY
  Chemistry in its relations to actinism. Draper.
• MICRO-CHEMISTRY
  The application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.