How to Use chemist in a Sentence

chemist

noun
  • The chemist said that did not mean the entries were fake.
    Jacque Smith, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Grubbs was a chemist who, in 2005, shared the Nobel prize.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The amino acids still preserved were what chemists call racemic.
    Evan Thomas Saitta, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
  • As for treating the problem, the answer may be sitting in the aisles at the chemist.
    Angela Law, refinery29.com, 3 July 2024
  • Kersey likens his job to that of a chemist who adds a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The front of Javed Shaikh’s chemist shop, housed in the compound of the Talab Chowk mosque, was shaved off.
    Supriya Sharma, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2022
  • That is set in the early 1960s and is about a female chemist who becomes a TV chef.
    Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • In the 1930s, a Swiss chemist was looking for new chemicals to kill bugs.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 4 May 2022
  • The chemists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, weren’t working on a bomb.
    WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • In the 1960s, a female chemist goes on to be a single parent, then a celebrity chef.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In 1951, Coover’s job was moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, where he was assigned a team of chemists.
    Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 20 July 2023
  • But that's not at all the way the authors, several of whom are chemists, introduce the idea.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The noble gas neon was first isolated by British chemists at the turn of the 20th century.
    Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The English chemist Joseph Swan, Edison knew, was hard at work on a rival light bulb.
    Tara Isabella Burton, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • So chemists had to alter the hormone’s building blocks — a chain of amino acids — to find a more durable variant.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • His group of friends, known as the Waldos, met on campus at the statue of chemist Louis Pasteur.
    Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Claire is more interested in math and science and hopes to be a chemist one day.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 2 June 2021
  • Joseph Raimondo lost his chemist job at the Bulova plant when his youngest child was in sixth grade.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The English scientist once worked as a chemist in a brewery.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The finding was outside of Hahn’s expertise as a chemist.
    Katrina Miller, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The procedure was named after the chemist who developed it in 1908.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Her dad was a chemist and moved around the country trying to find work during the Great Depression.
    Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • Allen was a chemist and the first Black woman scientist hired by Brown-Forman.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 22 July 2024
  • My mother was a great friend, chemist and tennis player.
    Darlene Aderoju, Billboard, 22 July 2022
  • In the 1960s, a female chemist becomes a single parent, then a celebrity chef.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • In them, the abilities of the chemist collide with the demands of influencer culture.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The raw materials for the snacks and drinks would take a forensic chemist years to reconstruct.
    Herman Pontzer, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Or that Louis Pasteur, the chemist who proved the germ theory of disease, also busted the myth of life on Mars?
    Annalee Newitz, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • This serum finishes hair with a super-smoothing shine that seals ragged ends, thanks to its silicones, which cosmetic chemist Randy Schueller has told Allure to act like a sealant and tamp down frizz.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Many inorganic chemists focus on the transition metals – the elements in the middle of the periodic table.
    Daniel Freedman, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2025

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