CHEMICAL ENERGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemical energy mean? 

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

1. that part of the energy in a substance that can be released by a chemical reaction

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMICAL ENERGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That part of the energy in a substance that can be released by a chemical reaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

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

energy; free energy ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs)

 Context examples 

The chemical energy that started with glucose, and was transferred to NADH and FADH2, is then converted to the energy of a concentration gradient.

(Electron Transport Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A connective tissue cell with the ability to convert chemical energy into mechanical energy via a contractile apparatus.

(Muscle Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Muscle proteins are also responsible for the conversion of chemical energy into mechanical energy.

(Muscle Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

NADH in oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria transports chemical energy from the Kreb's cycle to the electron transport chain, but NADPH does not play this role.

(Oxidative Reactions of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Cyanothece photosynthesize during the day, converting sunlight to the chemical energy they use as fuel, and fix nitrogen at night, after removing most of the oxygen created during photosynthesis through respiration.

(Bacteria Used to Create Fertilizer Out of Thin Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Implantable devices which convert biological energy (chemical energy of the metabolism of continuously regenerating body fluids or mechanical energy of periodic movements) to electrical energy.

(Bioelectric Energy Sources, NCI Thesaurus)

Earth still has such conditions, where many forms of life thrive on chemical energy extracted from rocks, without sunlight.

(Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life, NASA)

Brown fat, in contrast, burns chemical energy to create heat and help maintain body temperature.

(Cool temperature alters human fat and metabolism, NIH)

The cycling of material between the ocean and ice shell could potentially provide sources of chemical energy that could sustain simple life forms.

(NASA Issues 'Remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)

The chemical energy contained in fatty acids is released through the beta-oxidation of fatty acids in mitochondria.

(Beta-Oxidation of Fatty Acids Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)