CHEMICAL CHAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemical chain mean? 

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

1. (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMICAL CHAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

chain; chemical chain

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

building block; unit (a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chemical chain"):

closed chain; ring ((chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop)

long-chain molecule; long chain ((chemistry) a relatively long chain of atoms in a molecule)

open chain (a chain of atoms in a molecule whose ends are not joined to form a ring)

Holonyms ("chemical chain" is a part of...):

molecule ((physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound)