Definition of "chemical science" []

• The science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In the College and Industrial work he had little difficulty in out-stripping his fellow students as his mind was ever on the alert to seek out the little, yet the important facts that distinguish the extraordinary from the ordinary personages, and at the end of six years he had finished a course in mechanical drawing; as a machinist, blacksmithing, woodturning, carpentry, engineering and a course in natural and chemical science with an enviable record."