Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to both physical and chemical properties.
- adjective Relating to physical chemistry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to physical chemistry; due to the forces with which physical chemistry is concerned.
- Pertaining or relating to both physics and chemistry; produced by combined physical and chemical action or forces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Involving the principles of both physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Dependent on the
joint action of bothphysical andchemical processes. - adjective Of or pertaining to
physical chemistry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to physical chemistry
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Starting in the 1960s and continuing to this day, John has not only clarified the physicochemical laws that govern the behavior of electrochemical systems, he has also demonstrated how to use these laws to correctly formulate and solve problems associated with batteries, fuel cells, electrolyzers, and related technologies.
John Newman wins the Acheson Award Venkat's Energy Blog 2010
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In point of fact, the context of di Giulio statement concerns an "extreme interpretation" (physicochemical determinism).
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For that reason alone a physicochemical or “stereochemical” theory is not inconsistent with design.
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He worked in various projects related to the synthesis, characterization (by IR, HPLC, NMR, UV-VIS, X-Ray diffraction) and physicochemical studies of Rhenium complexes.
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Do the physicochemical distances between codons reflect the physicochemical distances between amino acids?
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Starting in the 1960s and continuing to this day, John has not only clarified the physicochemical laws that govern the behavior of electrochemical systems, he has also demonstrated how to use these laws to correctly formulate and solve problems associated with batteries, fuel cells, electrolyzers, and related technologies.
Archive 2010-05-01 Venkat's Energy Blog 2010
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The basic design principles for physicochemical systems, which include the highest productivity, least footprint, and production of desired components at the expense of waste generation, contradict the nature's principles.
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Further study of the regulation of composition, physiological and physicochemical properties of the immediate environment of organs, tissues and cells, conducted by Stern and her school, is not only important theoretically, but has practical significance as well.
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Further, good philosophers understand that Trevors and Abel propositions "There is no physicochemical causal link between codon and corresponding amino acid" and "Inanimacy cannot self-organize" pretty much closes the lid on Darwinian mechanisms as the sole reasons for the origin of complex biostructures.
Darwin or Design 2007
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The ecology and physicochemical characteristics of lakes in the subarctic and arctic regions of the Yukon Territory, Fennoscandia (Finland, Norway), the Northwest Territories and Northern Quebec.
Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic 2009
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