chymical

• “I observed an apparatus for chymical experiments, of which Johnson was all his life very fond.”

  The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.

• “He seemed also to be intent on some sort of chymical operation.”

  The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.

• “The distinctive sulphury smell of the infernal chymical mingled with the usual harbor odors of decaying fish, tar, stale beer, and human waste.”

  Conqueror's Moon

• “It seemed to be a chymical Analysis of all the ingredients which enter into the composition of Wine, and a proscess by which it might be made in its greatest perfection.”

  John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778

• “Geber, in the eighth century, is known as their principal chymical writer; he is said to have composed five hundred volumes, almost every one of which is lost.”

  History of the Moors of Spain

• “A chymical operation could not be followed with greater art or diligence, than is seen in the hatching of a chick; though there are many other birds that shew an infinitely greater sagacity in all the forementioned particulars.”

  The Coverley Papers

• “He had what his learned contemporary Peter Heylyn termed "a chymical brain," a brain that was forever busy with new theories; and the leading theory was that some lucky man would discover a key or philosopher's stone or magic”

  Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

• ““The composition would not of itself burst the hollow statue either by chymical explosion or mechanical expansion.””

  The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study.

• “He spent all his time in chymical experiments, I was told.”

  Oddsfish!

• “The chymical philosophers have discovered a body (which I have forgotten, but will enquire) which, dissolved by an acid, emits a vapour lighter than the atmospherical air.”

  Life Of Johnson

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