Chemist vs Chemism - What's the difference?
chemist | chemism |
A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
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, title= (chiefly, British, NZ) A pharmacist.
(chiefly, British, NZ) A pharmacy.
(obsolete) An alchemist.
As nouns the difference between chemist and chemism
is that chemist is a person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level while chemism is (obsolete|chemistry) chemical attraction.chemist
English
(wikipedia chemist)Alternative forms
* chimist (obsolete), chymist (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}