chemist

noun chem·ist \ ˈke-mist \

|Updated on: 23 Jun 2018

Examples: chemist in a Sentence

Definition of chemist

1 a obsolete : alchemist

b : one trained in chemistry

2 British : pharmacist

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Examples of chemist in a Sentence

let's ask the chemist whether it's safe to take these two drugs together

Recent Examples of chemist from the Web

The French chemist Antoine Béchamp (1816–1908) was a life-long rival to the great microbiologist Louis Pasteur.

— jason pontin, WIRED, "The 19th-Century Crank Who Tried to Tell Us About the Microbiome," 15 June 2018
Although they are meant to achieve a similar result, Olaplex and L'Oréal Professionnel's Smartbond have dissimilar formulas that work completely differently, according to cosmetic chemist Joseph Cincotta.

— marci robin, Allure, "Olaplex Wins U.K. Lawsuit Against L'Oréal in Smartbond Patent Infringement Case," 12 June 2018
The process was invented at 3M in 1965, after a chemist at the company developed a carbonless copy paper that used the technology, according to the website Mental Floss.

— nestor ramos, BostonGlobe.com, "If Postal Service can roll out scratch-and-sniff stamps, maybe the MBTA should try it, too," 5 June 2018
His parents — his father a metallurgical engineer and his mother a chemist — were part of a Soviet delegation working with the American lend-lease program to aid allies during World War II.

— martin weil, Washington Post, "Anatole Katok, mathematician who explored chaos theory, dies at 73," 9 May 2018
Zheng Huang, a chemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has discovered a way to melt plastic by combining it with an organometallic compound—a mixture of an organic molecule like petroleum ether and metallic lithium.

— avery thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Chemists Figure Out How to Turn Plastic Into Fuel," 20 June 2016
Across the Atlantic, similar work was being done in Nobel Prize winner Otto Meyerhof’s Berlin laboratory by chemist Karl Lohmann.

— aaron gilbreath, Longreads, "We Are Scientists," 5 June 2018
Conspicuously absent from the award was another researcher who has enjoyed the CRISPR spotlight, chemist Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

— jon cohen, Science | AAAS, "With prestigious prize, an overshadowed CRISPR researcher wins the spotlight," 4 June 2018
In the 1870s, chemist and inventor Edward Squibb, of Bristol-Myers Squibb renown, advocated aggressively for more routine revision to reflect the growing pace of scientific advancement.

— michael eisenstein, Scientific American, "The Little-known History and Global Future of Quality Medicines," 31 May 2018

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