Word Meanings - MACRO-CHEMISTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.

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• MICRODONT
  Having small teeth.
• MICRO-; MICR-
  A combining form signifying: Small, little, trivial, slight; as, microcosm, microscope. A millionth part of; as, microfarad, microohm, micrometer.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• MICROPHOTOGRAPH
  1. A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc. 2. An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other
• MICROPHYLLOUS
  Small-leaved.
• CHEMICAL
  A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.
• MICRONOMETER
  An instrument for noting minute portions of time.
• MICROSTHENE
  One of a group of mammals having a small size as a typical characteristic. It includes the lower orders, as the Insectivora, Cheiroptera, Rodentia, and Edentata.
• MICROSPECTROSCOPE
  A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
• MICROPHYTE
  A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algæ, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.
• MICROCOULOMB
  A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.
• MICROTASIMETER
  A tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions. See Tasimeter.
• MICROSEME
  Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to Ant: megaseme.
• MICROHM
  The millionth part of an ohm.
• MICROBAROGRAPH
  An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• MICROCLINE
  A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.
• MICROANALYSIS
  Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.
• MICROPARASITE
  A parasitic microörganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic , a.
• MICROFORM
  A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.
• 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,
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• MACRO-CHEMISTRY
  The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.
• IATROCHEMICAL
  Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.