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chemist

noun

ˈke-mist

Definition of chemist

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as in pharmacist

a person who prepares drugs according to a doctor's prescription let's ask the chemist whether it's safe to take these two drugs together

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Recent Examples of chemist Founded by Scripps chemist Peter Schultz, Wildcat built a high-throughput system that tests thousands of battery materials in parallel. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026 But street versions of the drug are also prevalent as chemists in basement laboratories create novel ketamine analogs. — Christopher P. Holstege, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2026 Last year, chemist Omar Yaghi won a Nobel Prize for developing Metal-Organic Frameworks, a porous substance that can both capture carbon dioxide and harvest ambient, drinkable water from the air, no power needed. — Martin Cizmar, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 For example, when a credit card is fragmented into particles some 10 microns in diameter, there is a more than 200-fold increase in its surface area, says Wei Min, a chemist at Columbia University and one of the senior authors of the study. — Payal Dhar, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for chemist

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pharmacist

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In an interview with Fox News Digital, Jim LaValle, a clinical pharmacist and metabolic medicine expert based in Texas, said that supplements should be balanced with other medications and medical conditions.

— Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Marcela Gottschald is a Brazilian journalist and pharmacist based in Argentina.

— Marcela Gottschald, STAT, 16 Oct. 2026

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