Structured Summary
Abstract
A basic science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter; and the reactions that occur between substances and the associated energy exchange.
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Used as a Subheading
Chemistry is also a MeSH subheading (qualifier Q000737), attached to other headings to focus them on this aspect:
Used with chemicals, biological, and non-biological substances for their composition, structure, characterization, and properties; also used for the chemical composition or content of organs, tissue, tumors, body fluids, organisms, and plants. Excludes chemical analysis and determination of substances for which analysis is used; excludes synthesis for which chemical synthesis is used; excludes isolation and purification of substances for which isolation & purification is used.
- Qualifier ID
- Q000737
- Qualifier Tree
- Y03
Indexing annotation
subhead only; includes "chemical structure", "chemical composition", "chemical properties" or "chemical characterization"; includes "chemical composition" or "chemical content" of organs & tissues, organisms & plants; not for chemical analysis or determination ( = /analysis) nor chemical synthesis or manufacture ( = /chemical synthesis) nor chemical isolation or purification ( = /isolation & purification); see MeSH scope note in Introduction; indexing policy: Manual 19.8.15; DF: /chem or /CH
Subheading synonyms
- chemical characterization
- chemical composition
- chemical content
- chemical properties
- chemical structure
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Aspects Covered
12 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
the discipline (education, history, etc) only; use CHEMICAL PHENOMENA or specifics treed under it for characteristics of chemicals and their reactions; the qualifier / chemistry is available for use with specific anatomical terms, lower organisms and chemicals
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Chemistry. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002621. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002621
- Chemistry. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry
- Chemistry. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2329