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Chemical substance   /kˈɛməkəl sˈəbstəns/   Listen
Chemical substance

noun
1.
Material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules.  Synonym: chemical.






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"Chemical substance" Quotes from Famous Books



... structureless? Probably it has an exceedingly complex structure, but our microscopes and technique are still too imperfect to show more than traces of it. Says Hertwig: "Protoplasm is not a single chemical substance, however complicated, but a mixture of many substances, which we must picture to ourselves as finest particles united in a wonderfully complicated structure." Truly protoplasm is, to borrow Mephistopheles' expression concerning blood, a "quite peculiar juice." And the complexity ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler



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