palaeochemistrypaleochemistryn.
/ˌpalɪəʊˈkɛmᵻstri/, /ˌpeɪlɪəʊˈkɛmᵻstri/, U.S. /ˈˌpeɪlioʊˈkɛməstri/ The chemical features of something as they were at some time in the past; the branch of science that deals with these.
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physical chemistry1743
zymology1753
pneumatic chemistry1788
stoicheiometry1807
electrochemistry1811
phytochemistry1837
thermochemistry1844
actinochemistry1845
inorganic chemistry1847
phytochimy1847
biochemistry1848
microchemistry1853
palaeochemistry1854
actinology1855
photochemistry1860
physico-chemistry1860
zymotechny1860
anorganology1876
kinetics1884
structural chemistry1884
stereochemistry1890
spectrochemistry1893
cytochemistry1900
radiochemistry1904
immunochemistry1907
magnetochemistry1914
leptonology1917
surface chemistry1919
crystal chemistry1921
radiation chemistry1926
leptology1928
mechanochemistry1928
agrochemistry1930
sonochemistry1934
quantum chemistry1938
cosmochemistry1940
polymer chemistry1945
conductometry1946
topochemistry1948
proto-chemistry1962
stereology1963
biochem1968
femtochemistry1988
combinatorial chemistry1992
cheminformatics1996
1854 A. Boué in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 56 9 The palæophysics are hardly studied, and even less the palæochemistry.
1904 Trans. Canad. Inst. 7 535 (heading) The palæochemistry of the ocean in relation to animal and vegetable protoplasm.
1926 Physiol. Rev. 6 316 (heading) The paleochemistry of the body fluids and tissues.
1981 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 303 595 Discoveries during the last decade in organic geochemistry and palaeochemistry are used..to evaluate current scientific views on the nature and significance of organic matter in meteorites and early Precambrian rocks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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