chemical mechanism

1. 1.

   the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction

   “he determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions”

   Synonymsmechanism

   Broaderchemical process

   Narrowerbiochemical mechanism

Questions about chemical mechanism

What does chemical mechanism mean?

chemical mechanism means "the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction".

What is another word for chemical mechanism?

Close synonyms include mechanism. 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 mechanism a common word?

chemical mechanism 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.