Associations to the word «Chemistry»

Wiktionary

CHEMISTRY, noun. (uncountable) The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations in the constitution of their molecules.
CHEMISTRY, noun. (countable) An application of chemical theory and method to a particular substance.
CHEMISTRY, noun. (informal) The mutual attraction between two people; rapport.

Dictionary definition

CHEMISTRY, noun. The science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions.
CHEMISTRY, noun. The chemical composition and properties of a substance or object; "the chemistry of soil".
CHEMISTRY, noun. The way two individuals relate to each other; "their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other"; "a mysterious alchemy brought them together".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne