CHEMICAL BALANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemical balance mean? 

• CHEMICAL BALANCE (noun)
  The noun CHEMICAL BALANCE has 1 sense:

1. a beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis

  Familiarity information: CHEMICAL BALANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMICAL BALANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

analytical balance; chemical balance

Hypernyms ("chemical balance" is a kind of...):

beam balance (a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm)

 Context examples 

They also keep the body's chemical balance, help control blood pressure, and make hormones.

(Chronic Kidney Disease, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

The chemical balance of volcanic gases such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide (or sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide) is generally thought to be controlled by the chemistry of the surrounding liquid magma but what the new findings showed is that when bubbles get large enough, most of the gas inside follows its own chemical pathway as the gas cools.

(Size matters: if you are a bubble of volcanic gas, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)