'chemical element' definitions:
Definition of 'chemical element'
From: WordNet
noun
Any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter [syn: chemical element, element]
Synonyms of 'chemical element'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acid,
- acidity,
- agent,
- air,
- alkali,
- alkalinity,
- alloisomer,
- anion,
- antacid,
- atom,
- atomic particles,
- base,
- biochemical,
- brute matter,
- building block,
- cation,
- chemical,
- chromoisomer,
- component,
- compound,
- constituent,
- copolymer,
- dimer,
- earth,
- element,
- elementary particle,
- elementary unit,
- fire,
- fundamental particle,
- heavy chemicals,
- high polymer,
- homopolymer,
- hydracid,
- hyle,
- hypostasis,
- inorganic chemical,
- ion,
- isomer,
- macromolecule,
- material,
- material world,
- materiality,
- matter,
- metamer,
- molecule,
- monad,
- monomer,
- natural world,
- nature,
- neutralizer,
- nonacid,
- organic chemical,
- oxyacid,
- physical world,
- plenum,
- polymer,
- pseudoisomer,
- radical,
- reagent,
- stuff,
- substance,
- substratum,
- sulfacid,
- the four elements,
- trimer,
- unit of being,
- water