Chemical
来自Big Physics
Safin（讨论 | 贡献）2022年4月27日 (三) 00:23的版本 （建立内容为“Category:etymology == google == [https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=chemical+etymology&newwindow=1&hl=en ref] late 16th century: from French chimique or mode…”的新页面）
late 16th century: from French chimique or modern Latin chimicus, chymicus, from medieval Latin alchymicus, from alchimia (see alchemy).
wiktionary
chemic(“alchemy”) + -al(“related to”)
etymonline
chemical (adj.)
1570s, "relating to chemistry, pertaining to the phenomena with which chemistry deals," from chemic "of alchemy" (a worn-down derivative of Medieval Latin alchimicus; see alchemy) + -al (1). In early use also of alchemy. Related: Chemically. Chemical warfare is attested from 1917.
chemical (n.)
"a substance produced by a chemical process, a chemical agent," 1747, from chemical (adj.). Related: Chemicals.
