chemist
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Definition of chemist
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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
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Her father Nessim was a chemist from Morocco who infused rich European flavors into coffee, which was a rarity in the Midwest at the time. — Halley Bondy, NBC News, "How Alyza Bohbot turned a coffee company into a message of women's empowerment," 3 Sep. 2019 In the 1970s, the microbiologist Lynn Margulis and the chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia hypothesis, which posits that Earth’s biosphere is, in some sense, a unified self-regulating organism. — Quanta Magazine, "Soil’s Microbial Market Shows the Ruthless Side of Forests," 27 Aug. 2019 Kinson is a chemist and researcher who focuses on tree propagation, trying to figure out what diseases trees have. — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, "Bay Village volunteers clean up more than 200 pounds of garbage along Cahoon Creek," 23 Aug. 2019 Valery Legasov was a chemist who put the horrible shortcomings of the handling of the Chernobyl disaster front and center. — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, "That time Jared Harris maybe helped a murderer get away and other stories," 22 Aug. 2019 His father was a chemist and his mother a homemaker. — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, "Phil Hymes, Who Lit ‘Saturday Night Live,‘ Dies at 96," 2 Aug. 2019 Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum, whose father was a chemist and mother was a teacher, was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 19, 1944. — Martin Weil, Washington Post, "Mitchell Feigenbaum, an architect of chaos theory, dies at 74," 12 July 2019 Roemich is a chemist by training, with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and field and teaching experience in archaeology. — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, "The Secret Tech Problem at Modern Art Museums," 24 June 2019 Her father was a chemist in the Physical Science Laboratories at New Mexico State University while her mother stayed home with her and her siblings. — Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, "An Engineer’s Bid to Modernize the Girl Scouts," 5 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'chemist.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for chemist
chemist
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English Language Learners Definition of chemist
: a person who studies or does research in the science of chemistry
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chemist
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Kids Definition of chemist
: a person trained or engaged in chemistry
chemist
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chem·ist
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Medical Definition of chemist
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: one trained in chemistry
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