causal agent
cause
causal agency | any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results |
chemical analysis
qualitative analysis | the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements |
quantitative analysis
quantitative chemical analysis | chemical analysis to determine the amounts of each element in the substance |
| chemical terrorism | terrorism using the chemical agents of chemical warfare, can undermine the personal security of citizens, a good agent for chemical terrorism should be colorless and odorless and inexpensive and readily available and not detectable until symptoms are experienced |
ecoterrorism
ecological terrorism
eco-warfare
ecological warfare | violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists |
| chemical engineering | the activity of applying chemistry to the solution of practical problems |
psychological warfare
war of nerves | the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale |
electronic warfare
EW | military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum |
class struggle
class war
class warfare | conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes) |
chemical defense
chemical defence | procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using chemical agents |
| trench warfare | a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other, instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare |
chemical warfare
chemical operations | warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy |
biological warfare
BW
biological attack
biologic attack
bioattack | the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food |
biological warfare defense
biological warfare defence
BW defense
BW defence | defense against biological warfare |
war
warfare | the waging of armed conflict against an enemy, thousands of people were killed in the war |
electronic warfare-support measures
ESM | electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition |
germ warfare
bacteriological warfare | the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon |
information warfare
IW | the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries, not everyone agrees that information warfare is limited to the realm of traditional warfare |
| war warfare | an active struggle between competing entities, a price war, a war of wits, diplomatic warfare |
| trench warfare | a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win, the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare |
| alkylating agent | an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer |
alpha blocker
alpha-blocker
alpha-adrenergic blocker
alpha-adrenergic blocking agent | any of various drugs that block alpha-adrenergic receptors, used in treating benign prostatic hyperplasia, relaxes the muscles of the prostate and bladder |
analytical balance
chemical balance | a beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis |
anesthetic
anaesthetic
anesthetic agent
anaesthetic agent | a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations |
antifungal
antifungal agent
fungicide
antimycotic
antimycotic agent | any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi |
antispasmodic
spasmolytic
antispasmodic agent | a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) |
antiviral
antiviral agent
antiviral drug | any drug that destroys viruses |
beta blocker
beta-blocking agent
beta-adrenergic blocker
beta-adrenergic blocking agent | any of various drugs used in treating hypertension or arrhythmia, decreases force and rate of heart contractions by blocking beta-adrenergic receptors of the autonomic nervous system |
blocker
blocking agent | a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process |
chemical bomb
gas bomb | a bomb laden with chemical agents that are released when the bomb explodes |
| chemical plant | an industrial plant where chemicals are produced |
| chemical reactor | an apparatus for holding substances that are undergoing a chemical reaction |
| chemical weapon | chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants |
cleansing agent
cleanser
cleaner | a preparation used in cleaning something |
immunogen
immunizing agent | any substance or organism that provokes an immune response (produces immunity) when introduced into the body |
major tranquilizer
major tranquillizer
major tranquilliser
antipsychotic drug
antipsychotic agent
antipsychotic
neuroleptic drug
neuroleptic agent
neuroleptic | tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired |
| psychotropic agent | a chemical substance that can influence human consciousness |
thrombolytic
thrombolytic agent
clot buster | a kind of pharmaceutical that can break up clots blocking the flow of blood to the heart muscle |
tranquilizer
tranquillizer
tranquilliser
antianxiety agent
ataractic drug
ataractic agent
ataractic | a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity |
| chemical property | a property used to characterize materials in reactions that change their identity |
equilibrium law
law of chemical equilibrium | (chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reaction |
chemistry
chemical science r | the science of matter, the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions |
| chemical engineering | the branch of engineering that is concerned with the design and construction and operation of the plants and machinery used in industrial chemical processes |
agentive role
agent | the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
| Chemical Weapons Convention | a global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons |
| chemical notation | a notation used by chemists to express technical facts in chemistry |
| formula chemical formula | a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements |
| chemical industry | the manufacturers of chemicals considered collectively |
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
OPCW | international organization for chemical disarmament, administers the Chemical Weapons Convention |
Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
NAWCWPNS | the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems |