as in pharmacists
a person who prepares drugs according to a doctor's prescription
let's ask the chemist whether it's safe to take these two drugs together
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Recent Examples of chemists
Control-room operators and millwrights will need new training on hydrogen safety and new sensor suites; chemists must monitor oxygen-extraction with H₂ instead of carbon; and automation teams must coordinate the reformers, recycle loops, and smelters.
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Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
Small but mighty, microorganisms are nature’s chemists.
—Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
To tackle this, a team of material chemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a more sustainable electrolyte – the compound that facilitates the movement of lithium ions between a battery's cathode and anode.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
Lee says the government is losing chemists, toxicologists, engineers and others who ensure drugs and medical devices are safe and effective and food ingredients aren't poisonous.
—Andrea Hsu, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
More than 240 consumer safety specialists have left across the agency, including nearly 40 workers responsible for safeguarding food, plus about 220 chemists, biologists and toxicologists.
—ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2025
As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists -- 75% of the research program's staff -- could be laid off, according to documents reviewed by Democratic staff on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
—arkansasonline.com, 19 Mar. 2025
In recent experiments, the team of chemists noticed that when water droplets move around — like in windblown sea spray, for instance — those droplets tend to develop different electrical charges.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
During that time, chemists and device physicists were able to regularly produce a smaller, lower-power, faster transistor that could be used for every function on a chip and that would lead to a steady increase in computing capability.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023
Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
Small but mighty, microorganisms are nature’s chemists.
—Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
To tackle this, a team of material chemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a more sustainable electrolyte – the compound that facilitates the movement of lithium ions between a battery's cathode and anode.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
Lee says the government is losing chemists, toxicologists, engineers and others who ensure drugs and medical devices are safe and effective and food ingredients aren't poisonous.
—Andrea Hsu, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
More than 240 consumer safety specialists have left across the agency, including nearly 40 workers responsible for safeguarding food, plus about 220 chemists, biologists and toxicologists.
—ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2025
As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists -- 75% of the research program's staff -- could be laid off, according to documents reviewed by Democratic staff on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
—arkansasonline.com, 19 Mar. 2025
In recent experiments, the team of chemists noticed that when water droplets move around — like in windblown sea spray, for instance — those droplets tend to develop different electrical charges.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
During that time, chemists and device physicists were able to regularly produce a smaller, lower-power, faster transistor that could be used for every function on a chip and that would lead to a steady increase in computing capability.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chemists
pharmacists
Noun
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California, Oregon, and Washington have created an alliance to develop vaccine recommendations, and New Mexico recently authorized pharmacists to deliver COVID-19 shots based on its own guidelines.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
24 Sep. 2025
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Pharmacy rules vary by state, and not all states currently allow pharmacists to give shots outside of the CDC recommended population without a prescription.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Chemists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chemists. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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