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Word Meanings - MICRO-CHEMISTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.

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  • MAGNIFICENTLY
    In a Magnificent manner.
  • MACROPODAL
    Having long or large feet, or a long stem.
  • MACRON
    A short, straight, horizontal mark , placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, a, in dame; e, in seam, etc.
  • MACROPETALOUS
    Having long or large petals.
  • MACROPTEROUS
    Having long wings.
  • MACROGRAPH
    A picture of an object as seen by the naked eye (that is, unmagnified); as, a macrograph of a metallic fracture.
  • CHEMICAL
    A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.
  • MATTER
    1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.
  • MACRO-CHEMISTRY
    The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.
  • MACRODOME
    A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal. See Dome, n., 4.
  • MACROGRAPHY
    Examination or study with the naked eye, as distinguished from micrography.
  • MAGNIFIC; MAGNIFICAL
    Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent. 1 Chron. xxii. 5. "Thy magnific deeds." Milton. -- Mag*nif"ic*al*ly, adv. (more info) facere to make: cf. F. magnifique. See Magnitude, Fact. and cf.
  • MACRODACTYL
    One of a group of wading birds having very long toes.
  • MACROSPORANGIUM
    A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; -- opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns.
  • MACROCHIRES
    A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.
  • 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
  • MACROSPORIC
    Of or pertaining to macrospores.
  • MICROSCOPY
    The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.
  • MAGNIFICO
    1. A grandee or nobleman of Venice; -- so called in courtesy. Shak. 2. A rector of a German university.
  • MACROFARAD
    See MEGAFARAD
  • 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
  • REAPPLICATION
    The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
  • IATROCHEMICAL
    Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.
  • COMMINUTE
    To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
  • INDISTINGUISHING
    Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.

 

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