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# chemically

«chemically» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a way that involves chemistry or chemicals: chemically…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (chemically)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a way that involves chemistry or chemicals: chemically treated wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemically/#m1)

2) In terms of what something is made of at the level of atoms and molecules: "Chemically, water is H2O." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemically/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons "chemically" helps describe chemical changes: when wood burns or iron rusts, it changes chemically into new substances, unlike melting ice, which is a physical change. In everyday life it appears on labels: chemically treated, chemically cleaned. Phrases: chemically identical, chemically different, react chemically.

### examples

- Iron changes chemically when it rusts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemically/#x1)
- Diamond and coal are chemically very similar — both are carbon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemically/#x2)
- The wood has been chemically treated to stop it rotting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemically/#x3)
- Chemically, salt is sodium chloride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemically/#x4)
- Burning paper changes it chemically into ash and smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemically/#x5)
- Melting ice is not changed chemically; it is still water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemically/#x6)

### note

Adverb of "chemical" (+ly → chemically, with -ally). Pronounced KEM-ik-lee; the "ch" sounds like k. Key science idea: a chemical change makes a new substance; a physical change does not.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chemically» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemically/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.