physicochemical
- a relating to physical chemistry
- He thinks that: 1) "in some physicochemical manner" it increases the resistance of cells to bacteria; 2) it releases oxygen, prevents bacteria from forming poisons.
- The answer, Dubos concluded, lies in the physicochemical balance of the host.
- Science regards a human being not as a soul which may be saved or lost but as an exquisitely constructed physicochemical mechanism.