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

1 sense of chemical energy

Sense 1
chemical energy -- (that part of the energy in a substance that can be released by a chemical reaction)
       => energy, free energy -- ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms")