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chemical imbalance

A largely unfounded hypothesis used to push drugs as a 'cure' to mental illness. People are fooled into accepting what is essentially marketing as 'science' by smarmy ads, vague language, and constant rehashing of the idea that emotions are medical problems.
There is no evidence for any kind of 'chemical imbalance' from birth causing any kind of mental disorder, but the pharmaceutical companies would like you to think so.
by Shadow Creator October 20, 2007
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chemical romance

Relationship or encounters based mainly on a controlled substance. Popularized by emo music type artists.
I'm glad i got out of that chemical romance;
by mastadon75 March 6, 2005
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chemical cold

symptoms similar to having a cold such as the sniffles or congestion that are caused by the snorting of cocaine.
Are you sick, man?
Naww, I'm just coming down with a chemical cold from last night.
by fuckyeah91 June 4, 2011
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Chemical Bonding

There are three general types of bonding. Covalent, Polar-Covalent, and Ionic bonding.

Covalent bonding is when an atom shares its electron in the process to become stable. For example, a hydrogen would bond with another hydrogen, as it fills it's first orbital, and therefore becoming a stable element.

Polar-Covalent bonding is like covalent bonding, but it involves two (or more) different elements. To understand how this works, you'll need to understand valence electron orbitals.

Short version: If its in group 1A, it has 1 valence electron, 2A, two valence electrons, etc. Once it has eight valence electrons, it becomes stable. Transition metals (Group B elements), Hydrogen, and helium are an exception to this.
Take water as an example (H2O). Oxygen is in group 6A, and so it has six valence electrons, needing two more to complete its valence octet. Hydrogen has 1 valence electron (1A), so two Hydrogens share their electrons with Oxygen.

Why is it polar? Oxygen is more "Electronegative", or how much it wants the electrons. Oxygen is more electronegative, so the electrons want to be with oxygen more than Hydrogen. Oxygen's lone electron pairs that act as bonded electrons, pushing away the hydrogens, making the asymmetrical shape.

Ionic bonding is where an atom "donates" an electron to another atom. For example, Sodium Chloride (table salt). Sodium is in 1A, while Chloride is in 7A. Needless to say, one electron goes from Sodium to Chlorine, and they both become stable.
Covalent has two elements working together, as if it was a co-op mode.

Friend A: ugHHH I have so much chemistry homework to do!!
Friend B: Isn't it that chemical bonding crap?
by ShxdyNeo November 21, 2018
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chavically challenged

A polite way to call someone a chav.
"Hey! She's not a Thot, she's just chavically challenged"
by TheSoupNazi89 January 28, 2021
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chemicalogical

Something that consists of harmful chemicals.
“This soap is too chemicalogical”
by ZoSava November 20, 2021
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cosmically funny

When something is funny in a way that only a passive observer to the universe would find funny. Usually out of irony or blatant injustice, and often as a result of tradgedy or something that would almost never be considered traditionally funny.

Can also be used to describe something as "funny in a cosmic sort of way"
Did you hear about that guy who got hit by a firetruck while he was on fire?

Yeah, that was really tragic, but honestly cosmically funny.
by radioturtle July 1, 2022
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