STOICHIOMETRY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) the relation between the quantities of substances that take part in a reaction or form a compound (typically a ratio of whole integers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("stoichiometry" is a kind of...):

ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Derivation:

stoichiometric (of or relating to stoichiometry)

Credits