astrochemicaladj.

1854 A. S. Piggot Chem. & Metall. 325 Its [sc. silver's] correlative planet, in that singular astro-chemical system, was the moon.

1888 H. P. Blavatsky Secret Doctr. II. 109 Remember in this connection the Tabula Smaragdina of Hermes, the esoteric meaning of which has seven keys to it. The Astro-Chemical is well known to students, the anthropological may be given now.

1903 Mind 12 445 All of which, divested of the symbolic cloak, would serve but as further demonstration of the astro-chemical hypothesis as suggested in the scheme of Creation.

1891 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Cornwall 10 315 It is to the astro-chemical researches of M. M. Kirchhoff and Bunsen that we owe the discovery of the coincidence of the bright lines in the spectra of terrestrial substances with corresponding dark lines in the solar spectrum.

1946 Science 1 Nov. 422/2 A chemical understanding of the earth's atomic processes should be based on astrophysical and astrochemical concepts.

1973 M. Shimizu in J. M. Greenberg & H. C. van de Hulst Interstellar Dust & Related Topics 405 Cometary nuclei and interstellar dust are argued from the astrochemical point of view to be dirty ice of the second kind.

2007 H. S. Kragh Conceptions of Cosmos ii. 100 Astrophysical and astrochemical considerations made their impact, and much of the interest in cosmology continued to have its origin in philosophical and theological contexts.