metachemicalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

metachemical (comparative more metachemical, superlative most metachemical)

1. Pertaining to metachemistry.
   • 1910, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News - Volume 33, page xxii:

     The greater part of this is in comparative thermal equilibrium, and so we should not expect metachemical change to occur.

   • 2011, Davis Baird, ‎Eric Scerri, ‎Lee McIntyre, Philosophy of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline, →ISBN, page 15:

     Alfred Nordmann, in Chapter 19, draws on the work of Emile Meyerson and Gaston Bachelard — two philosophers with some genuine chemical knowledge — to articulate a more general, a richer, and a metachemical notion of substance.

   • 2012, C.K. Jorgensen, Inorganic Complexes, →ISBN:

     This is by no means reducing chemistry to a sub-division of physics, and even less making it a defenceless victim of Don Quixote-like pseudomathematical and metachemical theorists; a fundamental knowledge of natural history is still an essential condition for any further progress in an understanding of chemical bonding.