femtochemistry

1. 1.

   the branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses

   Broaderchemistry

Other forms of femtochemistry

plural

femtochemistries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about femtochemistry

What does femtochemistry mean?

femtochemistry means "the branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses".

How many syllables are in femtochemistry?

femtochemistry has 5 syllables: fem-to-che-mi-stry. The stress falls on "che".

Is femtochemistry a common word?

femtochemistry 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.