Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chemical_element

1 sense of chemical element

Sense 1
chemical element, element -- (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)
       => substance -- (the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; "DNA is the substance of our genes")