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Chemical compound

noun

(chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight. Synonym: compound.

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... simplifying and increasing the efficiency ratings of his goop. But this unexpected side effect, the cylinders learning and demonstrating something he considered basically untrue, had tied his hands with a hopeless sort of frustration. He would have settled gladly for a chemical compound which could have added two and two upon request; but when that compound can learn and demonstrate that there's no such thing as gravity, teaching it simple arithmetic is ...

— Sense from Thought Divide • Mark Irvin Clifton

... cease and give place to others, so that the joint effect is not the sum of the separate effects. Yet even here the more general principle is exemplified. For the new heteropathic laws, besides that they never supersede all the old laws (thus, The weight of a chemical compound is equal to the sum of the weight of the elements), have been often found, especially in the case of vital and mental phenomena, to enter unaltered into composition with one another, so that complex facts may thus be deducible from comparatively ...

— Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic • William Stebbing

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