stoichiometry
nounHow to pronounce stoichiometry:
Definition of stoichiometry:
- stoichiometry (noun):
- a branch of chemistry that deals with the application of the laws of definite proportions and of the conservation of mass and energy to chemical activity
- noun. (chemistry) the relation between the quantities of substances that take part in a reaction or form a compound (typically a ratio of whole integers).
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- stichomythia
- sterilization
- statistically
- spoliarium
- specification
- specialization
- solemnisation
- sociology
- simultaneity
- simplistically
- semiconversion
- semanticity
- secularism
- scleronychia
- schizophrenia
- schiaparelli
- rheumatology
- reverentially
- reverberation
- resiliency
- representation
- reportorial
- relationary
- rejuvenation
- refrigerators
- reformatory
- reforestation
- rectostenosis
- rectophobia
- reconsultation
- recidivism
- recarbonation
- reamalgamating
- radiology
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- questionable
- quadrilaterals
- punctiliousness
- psychotherapist
- pseudocyesis
- provocatively
- proverbially
- protanomaly
- protagonistic
- proselytizing
- proselytiser
- proportional
- promiscuity
- privatisation
- preternatural
- … more
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