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physico-chemical, a.|ˌfɪzɪkəʊˈkɛmɪkəl| [See physico-.] Of or belonging to physical chemistry; of or pertaining to physics and chemistry. So ˌphysico-ˈchemically adv.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 65 These several Physico-Chymical operations. 1731Hist. Litteraria III. 252 It appears with all the Parade of a Physico-Chemical Experiment. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 124/1 The general physico-chemical laws that dominate the rest of the universe. 1851Penny Cycl. Suppl. II. 420/2 Sir John Herschel proposed the epithet of Actino-Chemistry for this new branch of physico-chemical science. 1885I. B. Yeo tr. Oertel's Respiratory Therapeutics ii. 731 It has been thought that the diminution of air pressure acts physico-chemically in another sense. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 14/4 He looks forward to the day when psychological changes can be correlated convincingly with physico-chemical processes. 1969Listener 20 Mar. 389/1 Goldmann believes that the social sciences cannot be conducted on the model of what he calls the ‘physico-chemical’ sciences. 1970Ambrose & Easty Cell Biol. viii. 258 Studies of the permeability of membranes to gases, water, non-electrolytes, and ions were interpreted physico-chemically. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth viii. 120/1 The physico-chemical conditions within the meteorite parent bodies. 1973Nature 21–28 Dec. 528/1 The crystals were identified physico-chemically by their solubility in HCl, by the Meingen reaction, by infrared spectroscopy, and by petrographic microscopy. 1977Dædalus Summer 66 The neurological and physicochemical bases of human behavior are clearly not exhausted by genetically fixed enduring neuronal pathways. So ˌphysico-ˈchemist, one skilled in physics and chemistry, or in physical chemistry; ˌphysico-ˈchemistry.
1866Athenæum No. 1999. 236/1 The physico-chemist with his prism. 1909Jrnl. Industr. & Engin. Chem. Mar. 158/2 Unless my friends, the physico-chemists, will..discover some way for establishing some optical properties or other physical constants, we are very much at a loss to establish the molecular size of my product. 1934Current Res. Anesthesia & Analgesia XIII. 86 (heading) The physico-chemistry concerned in the action of anesthesia on blood colloids in relation to the safer handling of surgical and anesthetic risks. 1953S. E. Luria Gen. Virol. iv. 82 Their tendency to lengthwise and sidewise aggregation has rendered their study by hydro⁓dynamic methods a most perplexing problem for the physicochemist. 1966Mineral Abstr. XVII. 739/2 The physico⁓chemistry and origin of the deposits are discussed. 1972Nature 3 Mar. 44/1 The physico-chemistry of fibrous proteins. |