microchemistn.
/ˌmʌɪkrə(ʊ)ˈkɛmɪst/, U.S. /ˈˌmaɪkroʊˈˌkɛməst/ An expert in or student of microchemistry.
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1908 Science 7 Aug. 175/2 The appointee is a meritorious histologist and microchemist.
1933 Science 189/2 But as the methods are adapted to smaller and smaller quantities of the ‘unknown’.., side-reactions which were insignificant in the older work become significant to the micro-chemist.
1991 in Chem. Brit. 27 201/1 Seaborg was aware that the tiny concentrations of plutonium in a chemical separation plant might behave very differently from plutonium in the laboratory, so he put together a team of microchemists to work on the problem.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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