chemical substance

Questions about chemical substance

What does chemical substance mean?

chemical substance means "material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules".

What is another word for chemical substance?

Close synonyms include chemical. 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 substance a common word?

chemical substance 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.