physical chemistry

English

Etymology

Calque of Russian физи́ческая хи́мия (fizíčeskaja xímija). Coined by polymath Mikhail Lomonosov in 1752.

Noun

physical chemistry (uncountable)

1. The science that uses theories and techniques from physics to study chemical systems.

Related terms

• chemical physics
• chemicophysical
• physicochemical

Translations

the chemistry subdiscipline

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 物理化学 (zh) (wùlǐ huàxué)

• Dutch: fysische chemie f
• Finnish: fysikaalinen kemia (fi)
• Georgian: ფიზიკური ქიმია (piziḳuri kimia)
• German: physikalische Chemie (de) f
• Greek: φυσικοχημεία (el) f (fysikochimeía)
• Indonesian: kimia fisika (id)
• Japanese: 物理化学 (ja)
• Persian: شیمی‌فیزیک (šimi-fizik)
• Polish: chemia fizyczna (pl) f
• Portuguese: físico-química (pt) f, química física f, fisioquímica f
• Romanian: chimie fizică f
• Serbo-Croatian: fizikalna kemija f
• Spanish: fisicoquímica (es) f
• Thai: เคมีเชิงฟิสิกส์ f
• Turkish: fizikokimya (tr)
• Vietnamese: hoá học vật lí

References

• Physical Chemistry