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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In psychophysics, the chemistry of the mental life; the science of the chemical changes which accompany the appearance of definite types of consciousness in the psychophysical organism.
- noun In psychology, mental chemistry; the derivation of psychical resultants from elements which, considered alone, neither resemble nor give promise of these resultants, as the derivation of psychological space from non-spatial sensory elements.
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Major technological breakthroughs, such as the ones in electronics and psychochemistry that have occurred in our era, inevitably alter man's image of himself, of his environment and his deity.
Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971
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