physico-chemicaladj.
/ˌfɪzᵻkəʊˈkɛmᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌfɪzəkoʊˈkɛmək(ə)l/ Of or relating to physical chemistry; of or relating to both physics and chemistry.
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the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > [adjective]
physico-chemical1664
physical-chemical1896
the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > branches of chemistry > [adjective]
mago-chemical1652
physico-chemical1664
chemico-medical1744
unorganic1775
pneumato-chemical1790
electrochemical1808
electrochemic1813
zymological1828
photochemical1858
thermochemical1871
physiochemical1881
stoicheiometrical1887
stereo-chemical1890
stoicheiometric1892
physical-chemical1896
zymotechnic1896
zymotechnical1900
photochemic1907
magnetochemical1911
immunochemical1912
radiochemical1915
topochemical1920
palaeochemical1926
cosmochemical1940
mechanochemical1943
radiation-chemical1946
sonochemical1948
stereological1963
bioinorganic1970
thermochemic-
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 65 These several Physico-Chymical operations.
1791 W. Lewis Exper. Hist. Materia Medica (ed. 4) I. 67 A solution of it..is recommended by Hoffman, in his physicochemical observations, as one of the most effectual corroborants of the nervous system.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 124/1 The general physico-chemical laws that dominate the rest of the universe.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 14/4 He looks forward to the day when psychological changes can be correlated convincingly with physico-chemical processes.
1991 Biotech Forum Europe Sept. 483/3 Bio-desulfonation of aromatic compounds does not seem to be attracting much current interest as an alternative to other physicochemical methods of depollution.
Derivatives
ˌphysico-ˈchemically adv.
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the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > [adverb]
physico-chemically1885
the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > branches of chemistry > [adverb]
photochemically1858
physico-chemically1885
stereochemically1890
radiochemically1915
immunochemically1940
cosmochemically1957
mechanochemically1961
topochemically1962
phytochemically1969
stereologically1972
thermochemically-
1885 I. B. Yeo tr. M. J. Oertel Respiratory Therapeutics ii. 731 It has been thought that the diminution of air pressure acts physico-chemically in another sense.
1973 Nature 21 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.
2000 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 4116/2 To simulate the detailed kinetic behavior of the system by the use of a physicochemically based probabilistic model.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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