chemical action

Questions about chemical action

What does chemical action mean?

chemical action means "(chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved".

What is another word for chemical action?

Close synonyms include chemical process, chemical change. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chemical action a common word?

chemical action is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.