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- noun chemistry Any one of the simplest
chemical substances that cannot bedecomposed in a chemicalreaction . Chemical elements consist ofatoms which have the same number ofprotons .
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- 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
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- 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
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hyponyms (152)
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- Br
- Ds
- Hs
- Kr
- Md
- Pu
- Rf.
- Rg
- Rn
- Se
- Sg
- Te
- Unq
- Uub
- Xe
- ac
- actinium
- allotrope
- ar
- argon
- argonon
- arsenic
- as
- astatine
- at
- atomic number 1
- atomic number 10
- atomic number 101
- atomic number 102
- atomic number 103
- atomic number 104
- atomic number 105
- atomic number 106
- atomic number 107
- atomic number 108
- atomic number 109
- atomic number 110
- atomic number 111
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- atomic number 113
- atomic number 114
- atomic number 115
- atomic number 116
- atomic number 14
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- atomic number 17
- atomic number 18
- atomic number 2
- atomic number 32
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- atomic number 5
- atomic number 52
- atomic number 53
- atomic number 54
- atomic number 6
- atomic number 7
- atomic number 8
- atomic number 85
- atomic number 86
- atomic number 89
- atomic number 9
- atomic number 94
- b
- bh
- bohrium
- boron
- bromine
- c
- carbon
- chlorine
- cl
- darmstadtium
- db
- dubnium
- element 104
- element 105
- element 106
- element 107
- element 108
- element 109
- element 110
- element 111
- element 112
- element 113
- element 114
- element 115
- element 116
- f
- fluorine
- ge
- germanium
- h
- hahnium
- hassium
- he
- helium
- hydrogen
- i
- inert gas
- iodin
- iodine
- krypton
- lawrencium
- lr
- meitnerium
- mendelevium
- metal
- metallic element
- mt
- mv
- n
- ne
- neon
- nitrogen
- no
- nobelium
- noble gas
- nonmetal
- o
- oxygen
- p
- phosphorus
- plutonium
- radon
- roentgenium
- rutherfordium
- s
- seaborgium
- selenium
- si
- silicon
- sulfur
- sulphur
- tellurium
- trace element
- transactinide
- transuranic element
- unnilquadium
- ununbium
- ununhexium
- ununpentium
- ununquadium
- ununtrium
- uuh
- uup
- uuq
- uut
- xenon
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