CHEMICAL in a Sentence

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to the chemical retort, there's no help for it, we must accept the retort too, or else it will be accepted without our consent.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHEMICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chemical
 a.  of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes
 n.  material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  A fellow who is working at the chemical laboratory up at the hospital.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Near the further end a low arched passage branched away from it and led to the chemical laboratory.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
3  "Let us have some fresh blood," he said, digging a long bodkin into his finger, and drawing off the resulting drop of blood in a chemical pipette.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
4  Sometimes he spent his day at the chemical laboratory, sometimes in the dissecting-rooms, and occasionally in long walks, which appeared to take him into the lowest portions of the City.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
5  The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon; and his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical, had changed the destination of the block at the bottom of the garden.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
6  At one table, there were traces of chemical work, various measured heaps of some white salt being laid on glass saucers, as though for an experiment in which the unhappy man had been prevented.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
7  They say they get more money out of the chemical by-products than out of the coal--I forget what it is.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  A formidable array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the chemical work which was so dear to him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
9  Holmes was seated at his side-table clad in his dressing-gown, and working hard over a chemical investigation.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
10  There were the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
11  Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly malodorous product.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
12  He tossed a sheet of paper upon the table, and turned once more to his chemical analysis.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
13  The day after his arrival at Maryino, he set to work on his frogs, his infusoria, and his chemical experiments, and was for ever busy with them.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  In consequence again of those accursed laws of consciousness, anger in me is subject to chemical disintegration.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
15  to the chemical retort, there's no help for it, we must accept the retort too, or else it will be accepted without our consent.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
Example Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
16  Tests of the chemical have shown that it has a high level of toxicity.
17  The company has evolved into a major chemical manufacturer.
18  We must reduce the danger of war by controlling nuclear, chemical and conventional arms.
19  These chemical changes occur quite naturally.
20  Forty degrees centigrade is the maximal temperature at which this chemical reaction will occur.
21  The chemical structure of this particular molecule is very unusual.
22  Clouds of toxic fumes escaped from the chemical plant.
23  A complicated string of chemical reactions leads to the end product.
24  Professor Orr has developed interesting ways of tagging chemical molecules using existing laboratory lasers.
25  A scientist has been arrested for revealing state secrets concerning chemical weapons.
26  The fight against a chemical storage site has transformed a normally sedate village into a battleground.
27  Instruments on board include the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer which will analyse the chemical composition of the comet nucleus - the icy core in the head of the comet.
28  Instruments on board will analyze the chemical composition of the comet nucleus - the icy core in the head of the comet.
29  BPA, as you're likely aware, is a chemical commonly found in plastics, food cans, and water bottles.
30  Many chemical reactions cannot take place without the presence of a catalyst.